Thread: Does the OS support multitasking?
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Wooky is offline Wooky
2006-01-01 , 00:45
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Originally Posted by putkowski
cron is a daemon (service if you're from Redmond) that runs jobs at particular dates/times. think of it as the windows scheduler.

the "output" of a cron job is put in the email folder of the user account that runs the job.
Pardon, I resent that "service if you're from Redmond". In my Mandriva box (and most RH derived distros, AFAIK) you can type
#service crond start|stop
for example, so calling it a service is not Redmon-centric. I would personally define a daemon as a manager of service(s); so that the crond daemon manages the cron service; the xinetd daemon may manage a lot of services, and so on. A bit OT, I guess, sorry.