Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Updating to 1.2.11

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

>> Do either of those packages start by _default_ when you boot DL?
>>     
>
> Yes. Any program/script placed in /etc/cron.daily for example will be executed 
> as root.  So far as I know this is the only way aide is executed.  Had aide 
> install been good then everybody would be running it whether they wanted to or 
> not.  There's a thing called logwatch also arrived in this DL version which does 
> work.  It is also started in cron.daily.   First I knew about it was its report 
> in my inbox.
>   

OK, maybe the line in the crontab should be commented out by default. 
(I'll leave that decision to Heiko)

OTOH, the last time I checked, crond itself doesn't start by default. 
And if/when you turn on cron, you it's a good idea to edit/check the
crontabs.

 - BS