From wtopa@ix.netcom.com Sat Feb 14 00:59:05 1998 From: wtopa@ix.netcom.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [wtopa@ix.netcom.com: [S.u.S.E. Linux] CORRECTION TkInfo & Cron.daily !!] Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 01:59:05 +0100 Message-ID: <6c2q8p$anl$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[wtopa@ix.netcom.com: [S.u.S.E. Linux] CORRECTION TkInfo & Cron.daily !!]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0155022947534247008==" --===============0155022947534247008== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [wtopa(a)ix.netcom.com: [S.u.S.E. Linux] CORRECTION TkIn= fo & Cron.daily !!] Date: Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 12:15:19AM +0100 In reply to:Michael Burghart Quoting Michael Burghart(smb(a)suse.de): >=20 >=20 > Dear Wayne..hi again.:-)) >=20 > On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 wtopa(a)ix.netcom.com wrote: > > >=20 > > > Just installed TkInfo from the SuSE 5.1 CD's. It complained about no > > > whatis databases. Ran makewhatis manually and now only get the error > > > "/usr/man/preformat -- doesn't exist" >=20 > cron.daily is your friend..;)) > > >=20 micha It probably is, but as I pointed out in the original post, the call to cron.daily is commented out in /sbin/init.d/boot. WHY?? OK, now for us dummies, if it (cron.daily) is NOT called by /sbin/init.d/boot WHAT DOES call it? Yes I see that cron.daily is in the /etc/crontab script but how does that run. Who/What calls /etc/crontab. It isn't=20 clear, to me, and no one has come forward to explain it. I have asked=20 the same question more than once. It is not in the book! The man page included in SuSE 5.1 covers the crontab -e method only. Why has SuSe changed methods and not included the relavent man pages? =20 > > > Sorry for the questions but SuSE has introduced (at least to me), a > > > few new ways to do things and I would like to do it the SuSE way in > > > this setup. >=20 > there is a crontab under /etc/crontab Have a look at this. The format is > explained in our handbook (in the "S.u.S.E. chapter")... Which SuSE chapter. Chapter 11 Page 157? If so would you please explain the last sentence. ie " additionally you must insert after the time setting, under which user the specific order should be handled" For those of us that are NOT SystemV people, and since it has only been in SuSE since version 5.0, wouldn't a little example be in order. Whoever wrote that understood it, but I sure don't! Or do you mean Chapter 17, Page 276, which says use "crontab -e". micha, the book says both ways, gives an example of the way most of us KNOW, but not an example of the NEW way SuSE has changed over to! Please - some examples!! The book shows the crontab -e way. How about the SuSE (SystemV) way? PLEASE! >=20 > And this should run...;))..We have setup a crontab under /etc as this is > SystemV compatible.. So if there is an explanation of how the SystemV method works could you supply a source for that explanation. You (SuSE) included BOTH methods. Why, is the SystemV way better/worse then the usual crontab -e? If I could have found an explanation in the book, I would not have asked these difficult questions. You have not answered the question conderning the preformat directory. Why is there none? TkMan reports that as an error. Why doesn't SuSU have one. SystemV??=20 Sorry, I am getting frustrated again! I mean no disrespect but I am used to, at least, reading the man page for something that I don't understand. SuSE 5.1 has a lot of man pages missing! >=20 > =20 > -micha- >=20 > --- > Michael Burghart, S.u.S.E. GmbH, Gebhardtstr. 2, 90762 Fuerth, Germany > Tel: +49-911-74053-0, WWW: http://www.suse.de/> =20 > Fax: +49-911-7417755, Email: mb(a)suse.de >=20 >=20 > . --=20 A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============0155022947534247008==--