On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:32:14AM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > What happened to cron? None of the cron services are running. Man cron > says do /etc/init.d/cron start but cron is only found in the following > files. Dpkg says cron isn't installed; I can grab it with apt but 1. why > is it missing 2. if the cron package wasn't installed why do I have cron > directories? 3. if it was removed; can anyone propose a good reason for > purging such a useful package? thanks, justin > >
Going out on a limb here, but you could take a look at your logs. You should be able to see where cron is logging to by looking at /etc/syslog.conf . This should hopefully tell you if cron was installed. > /etc/apache/cron.conf > /etc/cron.d > /etc/cron.d/mrtg > /etc/cron.d/vpopmail-bin > /etc/cron.daily > /etc/cron.daily/apache > /etc/cron.daily/calendar > /etc/cron.daily/find > /etc/cron.daily/man-db > /etc/cron.daily/modutils > /etc/cron.daily/netbase > /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd > /etc/cron.weekly > /etc/cron.weekly/man-db > /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd > /usr/bin/dh_installcron > /usr/bin/ezmlm-cron > /usr/share/doc/apache/examples/cron.conf > /usr/share/doc/passwd/passwd.expire.cron.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/dh_installcron.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/ezmlm-cron.1.gz > Searcing on the Debian packages page, you will see that a lot of packages have, for example, /etc/cron.daily, and some of them do not depend on cron. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
