Re: [PROPOSAL] Cron jobs

[Burchard Steinbild <bs@suse.de>]

Hi,


On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Kurt Wall wrote:

> > If a certain job has to be executed more frequently than `daily,' the
> > package should install a file /etc/cron.d/<package-name> tagged as
> > configuration file. This file uses the same syntax as /etc/crontab and
> > is processed by cron automatically. (Note, that scripts in the
> > /etc/cron.d directory are not handled by anacron. Thus, you should
> > only use this directory for jobs which may be skipped if the system is
> > not running.)
> 
> Why not just put the /etc/cron.daily|weekly|monthly tables into
> /etc/cron.d, too?  What does this buy the spec?  

One advantage of /etc/cron.daily|weekly|monthly is, that you can make
sure, that there is only one cronjob at one time.  If you let your
packages decided what "once per day" means, you'll have 80% starting at
0:00...



cu
      ...bs

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