Help I deleted my cron.daily files

Knute Johnson ubuntu at knutejohnson.com
Mon Jul 4 21:53:56 UTC 2011


On 7/4/2011 2:50 PM, PleegWat wrote:
> On 07/04/2011 11:12 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> I did a stupid thing and deleted my cron.daily files. Does anybody know
>> where they come from so I can recreate them?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> On the command line, run the following:
>
> dpkg --search '/etc/cron.daily/*'
>
> That should list all packages storing files in the /etc/cron.daily
> directory, and which files they store.
>
> Works here, although of course I still have the files...
>
> I know there's also something on the command line to then reinstall
> those packages, but I can't find it offhand. Possibly --install --force.
>
> PleegWat
>

I do get a list of the files.  If you figure out the instruction to 
reload them, please pass it along.

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson




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