Re: cron jobs more often than daily
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:12:23AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> : 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.
Actually, you're not allowed to modify other configuration
files at all, Christian points out. So mrtg can't edit /etc/crontab,
mgetty-fax shouldn't edit it either, mgetty shouldn't edit
/etc/inittab, etc.
Hamish
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