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Re: cron jobs more often than daily



On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 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.

Policy 2.3.0.1 says

3.5. Cron jobs
--------------

     Packages may not touch the configuration file `/etc/crontab', nor may
     they modify the files in `/var/spool/cron/crontabs'.

Doesn't this rule this out?


thanks,
Hamish
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