On Thu 08/05/04 17:35, Brian Sutherland wrote: > As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a > package that installs a cron job to be run daily. > > My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ > that calls a more complex script which I install into /usr/bin/. > > Will this be compliant with the FHS? It should only be under /usr/bin if it is also ment to be used by the user as well. If not, I think /usr/lib/<program>/ is where it is supposed to go. The FHS can be found at: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html > Make sure that if the package is uninstalled, the cron job is > disabled? I'd do something like: # a bunch of lines for setting the command-line options or sourceing # /etc/default/<packagename> [ -f /usr/lib/<package>/scriptname ] && /usr/lib/<package>/scriptname as the simple script and make /etc/cron.daily/<package> a conffile. But, you might just want to: $ apt-get source logrotate to see how the pros do it. -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Josh Lauricha | Ford, you're turning | | laurichj@bioinfo.ucr.edu | into a penguin. Stop | | Bioinformatics, UCR | it | |----------------------------------------------------| | OpenPG: | | 4E7D 0FC0 DB6C E91D 4D7B C7F3 9BE9 8740 E4DC 6184 | |----------------------------------------------------|
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