[CentOS] cron clarification

2008-01-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What is the ramifications to simply placing scripts in the /etc/cron.hourly directory as opposed to actually adding jobs via the crontab -e method? Is there any significance to using one method versus the other? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] cron clarification

2008-01-01 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 04:08:17PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is the ramifications to simply placing scripts in the /etc/cron.hourly directory as opposed to actually adding jobs via the crontab -e method? Is there any significance to using one method versus the other? If you don't

RE: [CentOS] cron clarification

2008-01-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Traditional crontab entries do still work, if you really want to deal with that, but it's harder to automate install/uninstalls. -- rgds Stephen Thanks Stephen and Jim! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org