Re: Re[2]: cron jobs more often than daily
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Because sometimes the jobs need to run as root. Quite often I suspect.
> My package ipac (which started this) needs to run ipfwadm to configure
> and reset the IP accounting rules, which requires root.
Why not use a daemon? In peal, that would be a ten-liner...
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