Help I deleted my cron.daily files

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:54 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: 
> 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.

Couldn't you just touch those files and wait for their cron-jobs to
re-populate their contents? See what permissions are set on your Unity
machine and their ownership and set them the same?? It might work. Ric

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