dcron: dcron (Dillon's Cron daemon) dcron: dcron: The cron daemon runs in the background and executes tasks on behalf of dcron: users at the appropriate time. Many timed system tasks are started dcron: with cron, such as the nightly indexing with updatedb. dcron: dcron: dcron was written entirely from scratch by Matthew Dillon. dcron: dcron: dcron: dcron: