Re: cron jobs more often than daily
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: 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?
The mrtg package in hamm adds an entry to /etc/crontab; it also places
comments around the entry to aid future removal, I suppose. This may
violate policy (I don't know), but it does show that other packages are
doing this.
:
: thanks,
: Hamish
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