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Re: cron jobs more often than daily



On 16-Jan-1998 11:38:11, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Hang on, I just re-read this, and realize one thing this does give us,
> besides more complexity: have you ever wanted to change a cron job from
> weekly to daily, etc? With the current setup, you must copy the conffile to
> the different directory, and delete it, which means future fixes to that 
> conffile don't get propigated onto your system. If all the cron scripts 
> were put in a common directory, paralleling /etc/init.d/, then you could 
> just change symlinks, and this problem goes away. Neat!

Luckily, this is independent of changes to cron, and could be
implemented any time we decided to do it.

-- 
Steve Greenland


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