From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 19 4: 9: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C010163C7 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 04:09:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Received: from igor (modem-56-warw.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.56]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA00179 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:10:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <000701bf1a22$53868bc0$382137cb@igor> From: "Don Hansford" To: References: <000801bf1a20$1a2a03e0$3c0ca7d1@lalala> Subject: Re: cron Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:08:49 +1000 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cron is short for chronological (to do with time). Also Father Times' "pet" name is/was "Old Man Cron" Regards Don Hansford Downs Unix Group ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin M To: Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 8:52 PM Subject: cron > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message