On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:31:09PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > 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 > > 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? > > Oups. Well, rules exist for breaking them... An old idiom... > Then your only chance is to write an ipacd that forks, lets the daughter > call the ipcac-cron script , waits 15 mins and forks again. Started > via /etc/init.d/ipac. Urgh, I hate it already. Can somebody post a rationale for the section of policy quoted above? I notice that mgetty has added faxrunq to my /etc/crontab on my bo system. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au, hmoffatt@mail.com Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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