Re: cron jobs more often than daily

[Juergen Menden <menden@morgana.camelot.de>]

Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:
>
> Use /etc/cron.often (or similar name). 
> [...]
> Disadvantage: needs a patch for cron, to scan this directory as well as  
> the usual user crontab directory, and to execute those cronjobs as root,  
> not as a user.

execute it not as root but as the owner of the /etc/cron.often/ file. if 
the job needs to be executed as root, simply chown it to root in the 
.deb file.

jjm


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