Help I deleted my cron.daily files
Knute Johnson
ubuntu at knutejohnson.com
Mon Jul 4 21:54:44 UTC 2011
On 7/4/2011 2:34 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 4 July 2011 22:12, Knute Johnson<ubuntu at knutejohnson.com> wrote:
>> I did a stupid thing and deleted my cron.daily files. Does anybody know
>> where they come from so I can recreate them?
>>
>
> Not from one package unfortunately.
>
> e.g /etc/cron.daily/dpkg comes from the dpkg package and
> /etc/cron.daily/mlocate comes from the mlocate package.
>
> My natty desktop install has these, fwiw:-
>
> alan at wopr:/etc/cron.daily$ ls
> 0anacron aptitude google-chrome man-db passwd
> apport bsdmainutils google-talkplugin mdadm popularity-contest
> apt dpkg logrotate mlocate standard
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
Thanks. I've got a list of what was there. And I tried removing and
installing a couple of packages but they didn't put anything in
cron.daily. The system I did the damage to is a 10.04LTS server. I
have an Xu natty system running I could snag a couple of the files from.
--
Knute Johnson
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