Re: cron jobs more often than daily
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 12:02:56PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 02:16:03AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > ...and sometimes they are. cron-3.0pl1-42 is in Incoming on master. It
> > works for me. Files go in cron.d.
> >
> Are the /etc/cron.d files in standard crontab format, ie one
> line per job?
>
> Given that these files need to be conffiles (as mentioned in Christian's
> proposed amendments) this means that the job needs to test that the
> package hasn't been removed (but not purged), ie that the executables
> it needs still exists. This could be difficult to fit on one line,
> which means then that a script would have to be provided in a different
> location. Something like /usr/bin/packagename-cronjob or similar.
> Can anyone see a better alternative?
But then the /etc/cron.d crontab needs to check that that script
exists (since it doesn't need to be a conffile) and we're back where
we started, now that I think about it.
Ideas?
Hamish
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