On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:32 +0200, wlanmac wrote:
> It seems to work well using the crontab command from within your init
> script - assuming your cron is associated with a service. 
> 
> in start():
>   (crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v $0
>             echo "*/10 * * * * $0 checksomething"
>         ) | crontab - 2>/dev/null
> 
> in stop():
>   crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v $0 | crontab -
> 
> and then check for the "checksomething" argument to your init script. It
> is self contained, and installed/removed on start/stop. 

Why would you add/remove crontab entries on the start/stop of a service?
Why not just install the crontab entry on package post-install and be
done with it?

b.

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