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dw8547
Asked: 2017-08-09 01:29:34 +0800 CST

`--crond` at the end of a command

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I'm just going through the logs and noticed that the system run:

test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest --crond

as part of the daily cron jobs. I understand what this does/did except, what does the --crond flag at the end of the command do and why/when is this syntax used?

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    /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is a shell script, and it takes --crond as an argument for controlling how often it runs the actual popularity-contest command and whether to send mails about it. This is specific to this script, and certainly not a generally available option.

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