[Mailman-Users] Cron setup

Carl Zwanzig cpz at tuunq.com
Mon Apr 3 20:25:21 CEST 2006


In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Do the other scripts in /etc/cron.daily run?
> 
> This is not the normal way to run a script with cron. The normal way is
> to put an entry in the crontab of the user that specifies what to run
> and when. See 'man crontab' and 'man 5 crontab'.

In some versions of linux, it is used to run things hourly/daily/
weekly/monthly.  I see it in both suse and redhat with things like
logrotate, tripwire, and makewhatis. OTOH, none of my bsd systems are set 
up this way.

Either way, it's not really a mailman question.

z!



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