# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on # the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must make # exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary to # leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| dcron: dcron (Dillon's Cron daemon) dcron: dcron: The cron daemon runs in the background and executes tasks on behalf of dcron: users at the appropriate time. Many timed system tasks are started dcron: with cron, such as the nightly indexing with updatedb. dcron: dcron: dcron was written entirely from scratch by Matthew Dillon. dcron: dcron: dcron: dcron: