Re: Re[2]: cron jobs more often than daily
On Tue 06 Jan 1998, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> Have a directory, /etc/debian.crontab/, that holds a file for every package that
> wants to be run by cron. Modify /etc/cron.tab(in the master version), to have a
> line that runs /etc/init.d/debian.cron. Have a script, update-debian-crontab,
> that when called to add a new /etc/debian.crontab/package, updates
> /etc/init.d/debian.cron to run the package that would next need to be.
> Everytime that /etc/init.d/debian.cron is run, it checks to see when the next
> package is to be run, and updates itself, and /etc/cron.tab.
Why not require packages that need this level of control over cron jobs
to register a user, so that a user-specific crontab (in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs) can be installed, e.g. with "crontab -u
package file" ?
Paul Slootman
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