Re: Re[2]: cron jobs more often than daily
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:27:53PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> 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...
That's certainly possible, but it's a bit of a shame to
be implementing custom versions of cron, when cron can do exactly
this already but we don't have any way to configure it so.
Hamish
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