Re: cron jobs more often than daily
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:28:47PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 14-Jan-1998 12:06:36, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah, but why *can't* packagename-cronjob be a conffile? I agree that's it's
> a perversion of the meaning of 'conffile', but it certainly solves the
> problem -- it won't be removed until a purge.
That's a workable solution for now, but it's a bit ugly.
I will use it until something better comes along though.
thanks,
Hamish
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