On Tue 06 Jan 1998, Adam Heath wrote: > > Have a directory, /etc/debian.crontab/, that holds a file for every package > that > wants to be run by cron. Modify /etc/cron.tab(in the master version), to > have a > line that runs /etc/init.d/debian.cron. Have a script, update-debian-crontab, > that when called to add a new /etc/debian.crontab/package, updates > /etc/init.d/debian.cron to run the package that would next need to be. > Everytime that /etc/init.d/debian.cron is run, it checks to see when the next > package is to be run, and updates itself, and /etc/cron.tab.
Why not require packages that need this level of control over cron jobs to register a user, so that a user-specific crontab (in /var/spool/cron/crontabs) can be installed, e.g. with "crontab -u package file" ? Paul Slootman -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
