Re: cron jobs more often than daily

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:

> On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > Disadvantage: needs a patch for cron, to scan this directory as well as  
> > the usual user crontab directory, and to execute those cronjobs as root,  
> > not as a user.
> 
> It's a small "disadvantage", after all.

I like this option too.  A more general patch to cron would be an
include mechanism:

include "path/to/file"      - include a file
include "path/to/directory" - include every file in a directory

We'd use the second form here.


Guy


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