Re: PROPOSAL to serialize cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Abdullah Ramazanoglu <ar018@yahoo.com>
> begin  Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> dedi ki:

> > It is perfectly OK to use cron.xxxly for one's private maintenance
> > scripts. It works well, unless one thinks that xxxly means something
> > more precise than "once every xxx".

> Would it be equally perfectly OK to use cron.{onely,fively,twentyfively},
> in place of cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} ?

Yes. All of /etc/* is the domain of the local administrator, and
whatever he can set up there such that it works to his satisfaction is
perfectly OK.

Of course the administrator would have to write cron rules himself
that invoke cron.{onely,fively,twentyfively} at times he felt
appropriate.

-- 
Henning Makholm                                      "Punctuation, is? fun!"