On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > Why not require packages that need this level of control over cron jobs > to register a user, so that a user-specific crontab (in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs) can be installed, e.g. with "crontab -u > package file" ?
Because sometimes the jobs need to run as root. Quite often I suspect. My package ipac (which started this) needs to run ipfwadm to configure and reset the IP accounting rules, which requires root. 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] .
