RE: cron jobs more often than daily
Yes, it does. Worse than that are the packages that update /etc/services
like transproxy. Everytime Peter adds a service I have to manually
change the /etc/services file. Argh!
Couldn't we find a common way for packages to adjust other packages
conffiles? I don't like the idea of and update-crontab, update-services
etc. in my filesystem. Eventually we need a special update-bin
directory. :-)
Michael
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan E Norman [SMTP:finn@midco.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 1998 4:12 PM
> To: Debian Developers List
> Subject: 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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