On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I'm working on a package of ipac, some scripts to set up
> and summarise IP accounting info from the kernel. The author
> suggests running part of it every 15 minutes. The advantage
> to this is that there is less data lost in case of a system crash
> (the author's point), and it also lets you get summaries
> between a particular times, so obviously we get more resolution
> if we run it more often.
>
> However, policy indicates that you can only get your job
> to run daily, weekly, or monthly, by putting entries in
> /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}. Anything that runs more often
> has a user assigned to it who gets the cronjob (eg smail
> runs runq from mail's crontab, inewsinn installs crontabs for
> news).
>
> However, there's no suitable user for this and it needs
> to run as root anyway to reset the accounting stats.
> Am I stuck with daily?
Why not add a job like:
*/15 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ipac-cron
to /etc/crontab? The predecessor of at has done this, too.
Regards
Joey
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