[CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

From: Joseph (poematrix_at_bluebottle.com)
Date: 11/05/04

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    Hi folks.

    This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I
    have an "off-the-shelf" Debian installation provided by my ISP. When
    I do a ps -ef I get
    (amongst other things) the following
    root 195 1 0 Oct28 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/cron

    Now, according to the manual to have cron services I should be running
    a cron daemon called crond. Lo and behold whereis returns
    # whereis crond
    crond:

    Now, "cron" is not "crond" I apparently don't even have a "crond"
    software installed.
    I added a new line to crontab:
    0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi

    1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. It works
    interactively, but there are no messages that would indicate that it
    was executed by cron. What do I need to do, in order to have cron
    execute send_hit_count.cgi?

    2. What is /usr/sbin/cron doing there? It seems to forever be in
    memory, and I do occassionally receive CRON email messages with
    reports, such as
    /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
    ....
    ....
    3. Do I need to install crond?
    How do I do that?

    4. Should I get rid of the cron process documented above?

    TIA,
    Joseph 

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