[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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Anybody can feel free to edit and expand this page. Please remove the needs_attention tag if you have added useful information about the topic and remember to credit yourself in the Sources section... --- // | Anybody can feel free to edit and expand this page. Please remove the needs_attention tag if you have added useful information about the topic and remember to credit yourself in the Sources section... --- // | ||
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+ | I have added the task of writing pages for cron, at and anacron to my task queue, I will hopefully get them completed soon. --- // | ||
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+ | Slackware uses dcron, which can be used for asynchronous cron. | ||
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+ | From dcron README, "In the author' | ||
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+ | It uses the notation @freq, eg. @hourly, @daily, etc, or the notation FREQ=, eg FREQ=1h, FREQ=1d, etc. (see man 1 crontab) | ||
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+ | The daily cron job, as found in Slackware' | ||
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+ | Let it be noted that it works equally well at a cold boot or a resume from suspend or hibernate. | ||
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+ | ---pdi 2016/01/05 | ||
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