Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

[Ernest Johanson <ejohan@fuller.edu>]

Agreed that an hourly crontab is not too common an occurence. It could be
done by using the cron.daily entry in /etc/crontab as a template. Create
the cron.hourly directory and set the cron.hourly entry in crontab as
needed.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:14:00 +0100
> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in
> > debian.  Why is that?
> 
> Probably because the main motivation for /etc/cron.<interval>, as I
> understand it, is to make it possible to include crontab fragments in
> packages, and it seems rare for a package to want an hourly crontab.
> Certainly it has benefits for users as well, but users can always use
> /etc/crontab or 'crontab -e'; packages have to have separate files.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>