On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:49:30AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > I currently see three practical solutions out of the dilemma (that > /etc/crontab is edited by the sysadmin and scripts): > > (b) We set up a certain directory (say /usr/lib/cronjobs) where each > package can install its own crontab file (/usr/lib/cronjobs/foo). > > Disadvantage: See above.
I like this solution the best. Isn't it acceptable that the admin may modify these files just as they may modify the files in /etc/init.d and /etc/cron.daily? Then package-supplied crontab files would be conffiles too. So it would be much like /etc/cron.daily etc, but each package can specify its own interval. We should still encourage /etc/cron.daily perhaps because it allows a central point for changing the system maintenance time (in /etc/crontab), makes it easy to use anacron instead, etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
