[dundee] Cron - scared yet?

[Bruce Stewart]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:08, Nistur Effee wrote:
> Oops, I believe I just sent a blank email. I should really sleep
> sometime soon. Apologies everyone
> Anyway, I was wondering, what is everyone's opinion on Cron? I have
> always considered automating certain parts of my system, sit down, read
> a guide and then get distracted. Is it really as scary as it looks? Or
> is it as straight forward as you would hope?

If it has already been set up, I believe all you need to do is place the 
appropriate script in the appropriate /etc/cron.* directory. But of course 
if you need to execute at a different rate, you would need to add an entry 
to the appropriate /etc/*crontab.

> Secondly, I was wondering 
> something, I have a NAS enclosure now, but I'm not going to assume that
> anyone else on the network is going to scan it. I therefore set up
> ClamAV but it's going to be a pain in the neck to do it manually all the
> time. All I was wondering was whether anyone knew, assuming I set up
> crond to do something daily, say at 4AM... if my laptop was off at that
> point, would it do it next time it was booted?
>

I believe anacron handles this, ( http://anacron.sourceforge.net/ )

> I'm going to have to brush up on my scripting to get this to work
> methinks. I see a lot of... fiddling approaching.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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> Signing out
> Nistur                            nistur at karate.com

Bruce S.