Re: [johannes@caldera.de: Comments on Chapter 17 (cron) of the LSB Spec]

[Bjornar Ness <bjornar.ness@taide.net>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:41:31PM +0100, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:

>  Tagging periodic Directories by Capital letters has a technical
>  advantage: It allows script and rpm magic. See Nr. 4 of the Proposal.  
>  
>  o    Say you want to deinstall a package, which dropped a 
>       soft link /etc/cron.d/Daily/45foobar to a script foobar
>       which is part of the package.
>  
>       The local sysadmin moved the link to /etc/cron.d/Monthly. 
>        
>       When deinstalling, you want to deinstall this link:
>       Just do a "rm /etc/cron.d/[A-Z]*/[0-9][0-9]foobar".

Thats just bull, man 1 find
..or some other simple shellscript ofcorse..

   - Bjornar