crond and atd

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1 total messages Started by Martin Herrman Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00

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Author: Martin Herrman
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00

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Dear reader,

In the 'system administrators guide' I read about crond and atd, two
deamons that can periodically run a command. I would like to use those
deamons to delete my temporary files. Now my questions are:

1. do i need both crond and atd? What are the differences?
2. which temporary files can be safely deleted by those deamons? I think
the /tmp and /var/tmp files, but I also read something about files that
only grow bigger that contain messages about who was login in where and
system logs.
3. how do I configure crond and/or atd? Just configure the files in
/etc? Write sort of a 'program.bat' file in ms-dos?

much thanks in advance!

Martin

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