Re: cron jobs more often than daily

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Seconded.

I was only in favour of the script generated /etc/crontab while I was 
labouring under the illusion that /etc/cron.d processing would be a pain to 
implement.

Having cron process the /etc/cron.d/* files directly is much more elegant.

Cheers, Phil.



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