This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: > On 2004-12-07 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: > >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > >>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >>>> On 2004-11-24 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote: > >>>>> Package: findutils > >> [...] > >>>>> It would be nice if the daily find run could be moved behind the > >>>>> logrotate and sysklogd runs (maybe as zz_find) > [zz_find is ugly] > >>> zz_find? That's a really ugly name. I'ld rather not have it > >>> changed if it means living with such a beast. > > >> Have you got any better ideas? Afaik the only possibilty to move > >> the job is by giving it a name that sorts later. > > > Do the run-parts stuff, and then run this special script in > > /usr/share last, if it exists. A little ugly and special case, but > > I think I'd rather have that than a zz_find script (ick) > > I am not sure I read you correctly. You want cron* to change support > not only /etc/cron*/ but also > /usr/share/cron/tabs/pleaserunmeaftercron*? cu and- already giving up > on this bugreport -reas No, I was thinking that since findutils is both Essential and Priority: Required, this one job could be special-cased, not that there should be general support for doing this sort of thing all over the place. I realize that that's the kind of thing that 'opens up the door' so to speak. Perhaps that by itself points to my idea being a bad one. It was just a thought, and probably a beer-fueled one at that. I was sort of thinking along the lines of "there are some things that cron does on every sytem, since those jobs are installed by essential packages - wouldn't it be cleaner to integrate them into cron and let cron do the sorting, rather than having to do naming hacks?" I am not convinced now that that's either the easiest or the best approach, though. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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