Re: PW#5-3: How packages can register cron jobs
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:34:23PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Since a few packages have to register cron jobs which need to be run more
> often than `daily', the cron package has been changed to read all files in
> /etc/cron.d too and interpret these as additions to /etc/crontab. With that,
> every package can include a conffile /etc/cron.d/<pkg> which contains the
> necessary cron jobs.
>
> Unless someone objects, I'll update the policy manual to describe this.
The new cron in Incoming supports this. I will upload a new ipac
(the original troublemaker) to use it later today.
Hamish
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