[TriLUG] Cron question

[Andrew Perrin]

anacron is a different beast from cron. It's probably not smart to get rid 
of cron, as the system uses it for various functions, e.g., updatedb, 
mandb, etc.

Andy

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Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, James c. Jones wrote:

> Good Morning All,
>
> I have disabled cron ( I believe it's named anacron on ubuntu ) on my
> desktop.
>
> Question: Why do I see cron jobs running in my syslog?
>
> jcj ( still learning linux )
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