On Tue, Mar 07, 2006, Doug Summers wrote:
> I'm a little confused on how OpenPKG uses cron for its maintenance. On
> my AIX/HP/Solaris machines I get this in root's crontab:
>
> # <OpenPKG prefix=/syscfg/opkg pkg=openpkg>
> # chronological tasks of /syscfg/opkg OpenPKG hierarchy
> 0 0 1 * * [ -f /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc
> all monthly
> 0 0 * * 0 [ -f /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc
> all weekly
> 0 0 * * * [ -f /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc
> all daily
> 0 * * * * [ -f /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc
> all hourly
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * [ -f /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc
> all quarterly
> # </OpenPKG>
>
> However, on Linux (both SUSE and RHEL) I get nothing in cron nor in the
> /etc/cron* directories. What's weird is that I get these messages on my
> SUSE boxes, but not on my RHEL boxes (yes, I reinstalled to a different
> location):
>
> Mar 7 10:15:00 mig /USR/SBIN/CRON[2264]: (root) CMD ( [ -f
> /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc all quarterly)
> Mar 7 10:15:00 mig /USR/SBIN/CRON[2266]: (root) CMD ( [ -f
> /opt/openpkg/etc/rc ] && /opt/openpkg/etc/rc all quarterly)
> Mar 7 10:15:00 mig /USR/SBIN/CRON[2270]: (root) CMD ([ -f
> /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc ] && /syscfg/opkg/etc/rc all quarterly)
>
> How are these commands being called? I've searched and can't find
> anything. Restarting cron or rebooting doesn't remove the old entries.
> On RHEL I tried adding the above crontab entries but I'm getting no
> messages.
Well, OpenPKG on some platforms (where possible) uses /etc/crontab
and on others the per-user crontab. On Linux the /etc/crontab is used
while on AIX the crontab of user "root" is used. But independent of the
approach, the result is exactly the same.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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