From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 19 4: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.globalserve.net (mail6.globalserve.net [209.90.128.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F4A166C8 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 04:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lalala@globalserve.net) Received: from lalala (dialin60.montreal.globalserve.net [209.167.12.60]) by mail6.globalserve.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA01473 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 07:33:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000801bf1a20$1a2a03e0$3c0ca7d1@lalala> From: "Martin M" To: Subject: cron Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 06:52:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why is it called a "CRON" job? I've noticed that there is a reason for just about every name in UNIX, but I still fail to see what Conan the barbarian's warrior god has to do with anything... I didn't know Cimmerians even used computers... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message