On Jan 18, 2005, at 23:12, Larry Doolittle wrote:

> [trimmed copy of private e-mail]
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:38:31PM -0500, Dean Hall wrote:
>> How did you get rid of portmap? Did you get rid of the services for
>> which it's required? Or did you force them to use a static port?
>
> rm /etc/rcS.d/S18portmap; sh /etc/init.d/portmap stop
> I don't have any services that require portmap.
>
>> You might check out uschedule <http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html>.
>> It's a decent and simple cron and at replacement.
>
> Thanks for the link!  I think I'll keep my script for now, but
> that program looks better than cron if I'm forced to use something
> more complex.  Right now all I need is something to run the daily
> maintenance for man, locate, and TeX.

Another option is dcron, which I'm happily using supervised.  The link 
should be:

http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeSrc/

And my runscript is:

[vdanen@dionysus SPECS]$ cat /service/crond/run
#!/bin/sh

# this runs crond supervised

exec /usr/sbin/crond -f 2>&1

Fairly straightforward.

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