While setting up my gethosts.py script (for ad blocking) to run daily on my netbook MeeGo installation I came to find out that MeeGo doesn't ship with a cron like program. No worries, fcron to the rescue!

Here is how to set it up;
- Run the following command to get the latest (at time of writing) stable fcron release and untar it.
# curl http://fcron.free.fr/archives/fcron-3.0.6.src.tar.gz | tar xvz && cd fcron-3.0.6
- GCC and make are needed. If they are not installed, do the following;
# sudo yum install gcc
# sudo yum install make
- Configure fcron without sendmail, since it isn't a part of the MeeGo distributon (yet?);
# ./configure --without-sendmail
- Compile and install
# /usr/bin/gmake
# sudo /usr/bin/gmake install
- The installation will ask some questions, just answer 'y' to all of them unless you wish to change something in the fcron setup.

That's it. Now you can add fcrontab events with the command;
# fcrontab -e

Some help in fcrontab syntax here.

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