From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.pcdesk.net ([65.100.173.137] helo=pcdesk.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BakDE-000091-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:53:00 -0400 Received: from merlin ([192.168.0.10]) (AUTH: LOGIN jbahm, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-MD5) by pcdesk.net with esmtp; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:52:23 -0600 Message-ID: <000f01c453fe$0924ecf0$0a00a8c0@merlin> From: "Joseph C. Lininger" To: "Jayson Smith" , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001101c453f7$b9a45a40$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:00:00 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2096 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2096 Cc: Subject: Re: Cron question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:53:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Every user in Linux has a crontab file where he or she can schedule events to run when ever he or she chooses. The times are configurable. See the crontab man page for more information. Most likely, what you are seeing is the nightly events configured to run as root. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm@pcdesk.net note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayson Smith" To: "Speakup" Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: Cron question > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQNDe/ienap9Jqj2wEQIuHwCbBpZkRf+ouRNigW2qG4get65txckAoOKL rQJjMuxBQoJQMBNVuBWLuTJL =oZ4p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----