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Re: soliciting opinions about potential new cron/at features.



On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 05:51:13PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> With this approach, GnuCash would have it's own user-level crontab to
> monkey with.  I suspect this feature could be added fairly easily
> using the cron.d/ infrastructure that Debian already has.
> 
> It might also be nice to have some separation between section names
> reserved for the user vs those for apps.  i.e. perhaps say that all
> section names starting with app: are reserved for the use of
> applications, so for GnuCash we'd have --section app:GnuCash.
> Alternately, there could be two different options --app-section and
> --section, or whatever.


	I'd rather suggest storing the extra crontabs as
	/var/spool/cron/crontabs/user:section
	(/var/spool/cron/crontabs/user is the default one).

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