On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: : > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : > > However, there's no suitable user for this and it needs : > > to run as root anyway to reset the accounting stats. : > > Am I stuck with daily? : > : > Why not add a job like: : > : > */15 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ipac-cron : > : > to /etc/crontab? The predecessor of at has done this, too. : : Policy 2.3.0.1 says : : 3.5. Cron jobs : -------------- : : Packages may not touch the configuration file `/etc/crontab', nor may : they modify the files in `/var/spool/cron/crontabs'. : : Doesn't this rule this out?
The mrtg package in hamm adds an entry to /etc/crontab; it also places comments around the entry to aid future removal, I suppose. This may violate policy (I don't know), but it does show that other packages are doing this. : : thanks, : 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 : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .