On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:12:23AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > : 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.
Actually, you're not allowed to modify other configuration files at all, Christian points out. So mrtg can't edit /etc/crontab, mgetty-fax shouldn't edit it either, mgetty shouldn't edit /etc/inittab, 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] .