On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: > > Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! > > > > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? > > One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie > because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any > cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses > installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron?
A default install will configure cron to run mkwhatis slocate logrotate updatepciids updateusbids These are all very useful and your machine is somewhat crippled without them. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
