On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:08:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > | 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, > > No, that's what cron.d is for.
Both: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg -L man-db | grep 'cron.*/' /etc/cron.daily/man-db /etc/cron.weekly/man-db > | 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. > > The cron.<interval> directories are for anacron. Yeah, there's that too. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
