Agreed that an hourly crontab is not too common an occurence. It could be done by using the cron.daily entry in /etc/crontab as a template. Create the cron.hourly directory and set the cron.hourly entry in crontab as needed.
Ernest Johanson Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:14:00 +0100 > From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly? > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in > > debian. Why is that? > > Probably because the main motivation for /etc/cron.<interval>, as I > understand it, is to make it possible to include crontab fragments in > packages, and it seems rare for a package to want an hourly crontab. > Certainly it has benefits for users as well, but users can always use > /etc/crontab or 'crontab -e'; packages have to have separate files. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
