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graysky

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arch guidelines regarding modification of a root's crontab [SOLVED]

As I understand it, the modification of root's crontab would be off limits, i.e. adding a line to have a daemon do something at a regular interval?  Is this correct?  If so, is the only option then to use a 'readme.install' to inform the user to manually set an entry in the crontab?

Last edited by graysky (2011-12-05 21:40:14)

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ngoonee

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Re: arch guidelines regarding modification of a root's crontab [SOLVED]

I thought that's what the following directories were for:-

ls /etc/cron.*

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graysky

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Re: arch guidelines regarding modification of a root's crontab [SOLVED]

You're right, plus a number of packages make use of this.  Thanks.

$ find /var/abs/extra -name "PKGBUILD" -exec grep --color=auto "/etc/cron" {} \; -print
  install -D -m744 "${srcdir}/chkrootkit.cron" "${pkgdir}/etc/cron.weekly/chkrootkit"
/var/abs/extra/chkrootkit/PKGBUILD
	install -d -m755 "$pkgdir/etc/cron."{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} 
	install -D -m755 extra/prune-cronstamps "$pkgdir/etc/cron.d/prune-cronstamps"
/var/abs/extra/dcron/PKGBUILD
  install -D -m755 "${srcdir}"/squid.cron "${pkgdir}"/etc/cron.weekly/squid
/var/abs/extra/squid/PKGBUILD
	install -D -m744 ${srcdir}/pkgstats.cron ${pkgdir}/etc/cron.weekly/pkgstats
/var/abs/extra/pkgstats/PKGBUILD
  install -D -m 744 $srcdir/hylafax.cron.daily $pkgdir/etc/cron.daily/hylafax
/var/abs/extra/hylafax/PKGBUILD

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