Cron question

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at sent.com
Wed Jun 16 20:01:40 EDT 2004


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Read all about it with "man crontab". If you do "crontab -e" as
root, you will be editing a text file containing the scheduling
instructions for cron. On Slackware systems at least, this file
is well documented with comment statements and examples.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Jayson Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> I have recently installed Gentoo, and before that I was using Debian.  I
> don't know which Cron daemon comes standard with Debian but in Gentoo I
> chose VixiCron.  Aparently, Debian's Cron daemon fired off at about 6:25
> A.M. local time for daily events.  Aparently, Gentoo's fires at about 3:00
> A.M. local time.  My question is this.  What determines at what time of day
> Cron will fire?
> Jayson.
>
>
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