Re: cron jobs more often than daily
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 11:24:42AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 09-Jan-1998 13:03:45, Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> wrote:
> > . I don't see the need for introducing another directory just
> > for three packages that might need it (ipac, cron, <forgot the name>).
> > If there was heavy use of /etc/crontab, perhaps in conjunction with
> > problems breaking crontab &c, but there aren't. In the past there
> > were problems with at/atrun, but that's superceeded by atd as
> > standalone program.
>
> cron *doesn't* need it. This all came up because of a claim that many
> programs *do* need it. If that claim is incorrect, then we
ipac needs to collect IP accounting statistics every few minutes if
1. any decent resolution is to work when reviewing the results;
the summarizer supports any time resolution you want;
2. IP accounting statistics are not to be lost in the event of a crash.
I do not think Martin's solution of writing a daemon is acceptable.
cron is perfect for this. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
hamish (ipac maintainer)
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