weird question

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:

wprager wrote:As for "cronjob" it refers to a background task (job) scheduled in a cron table and run by the cron daemon in a unix environment. Cron is obviously the (Greek?) prefix meaning time. The command to edit the cron table is, simply, cron.

Actually, "cron" is the daemon that executes the scheduled jobs. To edit the schedule, you use the command "crontab" with the "-e" command line option.

Sorry, when they promote you to manager you have to submit to a lobotomy. I guess when they were in there they snipped a little too much.

Actually, all I had to do was close my eyes and type the command with my fingers -- I would have instantly remembered it was crontab -e, not cron -e.

At least I spelled daemon correctly, and I didn't mispronounce it as "day-mon" like I've heard some Waterloosers do.

wprager wrote:

Acrobat wrote:You are all geeks.
And I say that with pure admiration.

I need to learn Unix....

Here you go, a one-liner lesson in Unix:

unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep

mattshock wrote:I take personal offense to that!!

...but yes, we in Waterloo pronounce it Day-Mon Tools! (even though I've been using PowerISO for the last while, better support for different image types).

mattshock wrote:I once knew a bunch of those jokes, but that was many beers ago.

WINNIE!!!