Related to cron.daily

[Andrew Mathews]

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Swapana Ghosh wrote:
| Hi
|
|
|>>Pointer to what?  You haven't said what the problem is.  You did alude to
|>>something about webalizer.pl, but there's no information on what is
wrong.
|>>Is webalizer.pl not running per a cronjob?  If so, then say so.  Of couse
|>>the fact that its sitting in cron.daily2 sounds like the reason why.
|
|
| I want that webalizer.pl should not run...But i am seeing that at the
time of
| logrotaion this program is running though after checking, it is found that
| *webalizer.pl* exists only under /etc/cron.daily2...  We did not set
| cron.daily2 under /etc/crontab , so  by logic says this program should not
| run....
|
| My question is how come this program is running?
|
| Regards.
| -Swapna
|

As long as it's in *any* file called /etc/cron.daily* it will be called
by run-parts. This will NOT be listed in crontab -e or crontab -l. If
you don't want it run, just remove it from any /etc/cron.daily* directory.

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