Re: cron jobs more often than daily

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

"Meskes, Michael" <meskes@topsystem.de> writes:

> Couldn't we find a common way for packages to adjust other packages
> conffiles?

The service registration mechanism I proposed earlier takes care of
this easily.

Netbase does this in the postinst:
   provide-service --install-hook services netbase /usr/lib/installservice

And has /usr/lib/installservice:
   #!/bin/sh
   if [ $1 = "--install" ] ; then
     p=$2
     shift 2
     echo "$@" "# $p" > /etc/services
   elsif [ $1 = "--remove" ] ; then
     p=$2
     t=$(tempfile)
     sed -e '/# $p/d' /etc/services > $t
     mv t /etc/services
   done

A quake-server package would do this for example:
   register-service --install quake-server quake 26000/udp
And in prerm:
   register-service --remove quake-server

I should go implement it.  It solves lots of configuration issues.


Guy


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