Re: Re[2]: cron jobs more often than daily
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Why not require packages that need this level of control over cron jobs
> to register a user, so that a user-specific crontab (in
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs) can be installed, e.g. with "crontab -u
> package file" ?
Because sometimes the jobs need to run as root. Quite often I suspect.
My package ipac (which started this) needs to run ipfwadm to configure
and reset the IP accounting rules, which requires root.
Hamish
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