How did cron get its name?

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11-18-2005, 07:57 PM	#1
massysett LQ Newbie Registered: Nov 2005 Location: Silver Spring, Maryland USA Distribution: SUSE Linux 10.0 Posts: 17 Rep:	How did cron get its name? How did cron get its name? Just curious

11-18-2005, 08:16 PM	#2
bulliver Senior Member Contributing Member Registered: Nov 2002 Location: Edmonton AB, Canada Distribution: Gentoo x86_64; Gentoo PPC; FreeBSD; OS X 10.9.4 Posts: 3,760 Blog Entries: 4 Rep:	Couldn't find anything on the net, but I assume it is from "chronos" for time...

11-18-2005, 08:16 PM	#3
bigrigdriver LQ Addict Contributing Member Registered: Jul 2002 Location: East Centra Illinois, USA Distribution: Debian stable Posts: 5,908 Rep:	Cron, taken from the word 'chronoligical', meaning things taken in the order in which they happen.

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