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	<li><a href="/timeoutd">timeoutd</a></li>
	

	
	<li><a href="/gcal">gcal</a></li>
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	<h2>process scheduling daemon</h2>
	<p>
The cron daemon is a background process that runs particular programs at
particular times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month), as
specified in a crontab. By default, users may also create crontabs of
their own so that processes are run on their behalf.
