PROPOSAL accepted ? (Change Chapter 17 of LSB Spec (cron) )
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:41:59PM +0200, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:
> This Proposal is a repost of "Comments on Chapter 17 (cron)
> of the LSB Spec", sent out 2000 June 12 to the lsb-spec list
>
> =============================================
>
> PROPOSAL to change Chapter 17 of the LSB Spec:
>
> common script repository, init-like symlinks, directory naming
>
>
>
> 1 It is desirable to control the order of execution of the scripts
> put in one of the "periodic scripts directories" ( /etc/cron.daily etc.).
>
> This can be done by adapting the naming scheme used inside
> of /etc/init.d, using two digit prefixes, which control the order
> of execution.
>
> 2 It should be possible for the local sysadmin to move the scripts from
> one "periodic scripts dir." to one other, to control frequency of execution.
>
> 3. Both requirements 1. and 2. make it difficult for package managers to
> cleanly remove or update because the script names and path can change.
>
> 4. This is why Caldera uses a common cron script repository
> (/etc/cron.d/lib in OpenLinux 2.4) and uses soft links to these
> repository from the periodic scripts directories. (modeled
> after /etc/init.d/) The soft links must be named XXname, where
> XX is 2 digits and name is the name of the script pointed to.
>
> Example: /etc/cron.d/Daily/40cleandir ->../lib/cleandir
>
> The local system administrator now can rename and move these
> soft links inside the periodic scripts directories, but the
> package manager can get the information which soft links point
> to which script. As the scripts are part of a package, the
> package manager could completely control these soft links.
>
> 5. /etc Name space pollution
>
> The actual proposal enforces 5 cron related directories in /etc.
> (Or even 6 if our cron script repository idea is used). This can
> get even worse, if somebody wishes more periodic scripts directories,
> say /etc/cron.biweekly.
>
> This is why we propose to keep the historical place /etc/cron.d/
> and put the following directories inside:
>
> /etc/cron.d/
> ¦
> +-Monthly periodic scripts directories (Capitalized Names)
> +-Weekly
> +-Daily
> +-Hourly
> +-[A-Z]* more periodic scripts directories allowed
> |
> +-scripts cron scripts repository
> +-tabs cron tab snippets dropped by packages
> ( is /etc/cron.d in the lsb-spec )
>
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