Re: [DRAFT #2] Cron jobs

[Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>]

Kurt Wall <kwall@xmission.com> writes:

> For consistency's sake, we could mandate /etc/cron.d/hourly as well,

To be consistent, don't you mean /etc/cron.hourly/ ?

Or do you mean that /etc/cron.d/hourly is the one-line crontab file
that runs the script that runs scripts in /etc/cron.daily/ ?

Or do you mean something else?

> leaving /etc/cron.d for distribution-specific cron jobs.  Perhaps,
> while we're at it, standarddize on distro-specific stuff in /etc/cron.d,
> leaving us with something that looks like

I don't understand.  Why leave /etc/cron.d for distribution-specific
cron jobs?  What if an ISV wants to run something with an unusual
period?  What we're trying to avoid is package installation editing of
/etc/crontab.
 
> 1.  FHS/LSB standards in /etc/<period>
> 2.  Distribution specific cron jobs in /etc/cron.d
> 3.  Everything else in /var/spool/cron/crontabs

What is the benefit of this?  LSB and distribution packages will
hopefully be handled by the same packaging system.
 
- Dan