On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 02:51:52AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > /etc/init.d/debian.cron to run the package that would next need to be. > Everytime that /etc/init.d/debian.cron is run, it checks to see when the next > package is to be run, and updates itself, and /etc/cron.tab. > > Does anyone understand what I am trying to accomplish here? Each time > /etc/init.d/debian.cron runs, it modifies /etc/cron.tab, changing the time > that > it will next be run at. This might be better handled with some type of alarm > program, that will exec another program at a specific time, instead of every > so > often.
Sounds like `at' to me. So I could schedule my thing to run every 15 minutes with at, but I think that the sysadmin probably assumes that standard system tasks will not be run through at, but by cron. at has an atd, probably because it wasn't allowed to add atrun to crontab :-) 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] .
