Re: cron jobs more often than daily
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:45:39PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> What about a kind of tag-oriented style of appending to /etc/crontab after
> asking the admin:
>
> ipac-install suggest to append an entry to /etc/crontab, which starts ipac
> every 15 minutes:
>
> [line to be inserted]
>
> The lines will be enclosed by # -*- install: ipac -*-.
>
> This way a remove script will be able to remove the lines which were
> inserted by install.
That is the best way to do it (and the way debstd does it
automatically), but the problem is that it is illegal under policy
however you do it.
Hamish
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