Re: cron jobs more often than daily
FWIW, just so you don't think you're by yourself, I think your
proposal is superior. What we're talking about here is a simple cron
"database", and that's something the filesyastem's quite good at -- no
scripts needed.
Those arguing in favor of making /etc/crontab automatically generated
are the same people who think that people won't understand
/etc/cron.d, and that /etc/cron.d is too unix-incompatible.
1) Making /etc/crontab auto-generated is at least as incompatible as
/etc/cron.d, and it puts more of a burden on the user. Debian users
already know about /etc/crontab, and expect to be able to modify it.
If we go with /etc/cron.d, as far as the user's concerned, nothing
changes -- principle of least surprise.
2) If you make /etc/crontab automatically generated, people new to
Debian *will* still modify it, and then we'll have to field questions
on debian-user.
3) With /etc/cron.d we can make the files in there conffiles (like
/etc/init.d), and then when a user modifies them, they'll get
immediate results, without having to remember to call some script (and
many won't remember, they'll ask on debian-user why their changes
didn't take effect).
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