From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 19 4:18:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0051116755 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 04:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs3.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.102] helo=rncm.ac.uk) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11dXHm-0001tw-00; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:18:34 +0100 Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 19 Oct 99 12:18:37 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 19 Oct 99 12:18:24 GMT Received: from beowulf (193.63.96.90) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 19 Oct 99 12:18:23 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "Martin M" , Subject: RE: cron Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:18:22 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000801bf1a20$1a2a03e0$3c0ca7d1@lalala> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 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... cron... chrono-, from the Greek "Khronos" meaning time... as in "chronometer" or "chronological". As for Conan, well I seem to remember his god being called Crom, not Cron. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message