On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Bent Terp bent@nagstrup.dk wrote:
Am I missing something here?
vixie-cron? [root@misc ~]# rpmquery --whatprovides $(which crontab) vixie-cron-4.1-76.el5
BR Bent _______________________________________________
mmm, I didn't think of that:
[root@zaxen01 ~]# rpmquery --whatprovides $(which crontab) /usr/bin/which: no crontab in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sb in:/usr/bin:/root/bin) rpmquery: no arguments given for query [root@zaxen01 ~]# yum install vixie-cron
Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package vixie-cron.x86_64 4:4.1-76.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size =============================================================================================== Installing: vixie-cron x86_64 4:4.1-76.el5 base 80 k
Transaction Summary =============================================================================================== Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 80 k Is this ok [y/N]: y
Installed: vixie-cron.x86_64 4:4.1-76.el5 Complete!
[root@zaxen01 ~]# rpmquery --whatprovides $(which crontab) vixie-cron-4.1-76.el5
[root@zaxen01 ~]# cron crond crontab
Cool, thanx, now it's working again :)
So, what exactly does the crontabs rpm do then?