[PROPOSAL] Get rid of the cron.daily dir
I propose to remove the /etc/cron.daily directory from the
list of required periodic script directories in /etc
This is not a serious restriction, as the new "crontab snippet"
directory (etc/cron.d) allows arbitrary execution periods,
even on hour.
Also this proposal would resolve the contradiction in the
wording of the spec
("more often then dayly", see
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:29:26 +0200
From: Johannes Poehlmann <johannes@caldera.de>
To: lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Clarification in LSB Spec chapter 17 (cron)[repost with patch]
Message-ID: <20000808162926.A11226@caldera.de> )
There are technical advantages of "cron snippets" over the
/etc.cron.daily directory: It is possible not to wake up
laptop hard disks every hour.
The debian patch which implements the "cron snippet" directory tries
to minimize unneded disk access in a way that is not availible for the
*/Hourly directory: If possible, it does not reread the "cron snippets"
directory.
As it is possible (and we even do that) to put a link into the */Hourly
directory, cron has to check every time if the target of the link has
changed.
So not mandating the existence of a */Daily and so forcing 3rd party app
vendors to use the "cron snippet" directory directory saves cron from
spinning up the hard disk every hour.
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