Question about ports adding cronjobs

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Robert Huff wrote:
| Pietro Cerutti writes:
|
|>  | I
|>  | have a package done up for it, and I'd like to add it to the ports
tree
|>  | eventually, but I'm stuck on how to get it to automagically add the
|>  | cronjob to have the stats gathering script run every five minutes,
and I
|>  | don't know of any ports that add cronjobs off the top of my head to go
|>  | look at.
|>  |
|>  | Is there an approved standard for doing this?
|>
|>  Another option would be to create a support script/daemon and
|>  place it in rc.d. The script/daemon would then sit idle and wake
|>  up once every <your preferred time here> and gather your
|>  statistics.
|>
|>  Third option: instruct the user (via a message at post-install
|>  stage) on how to setup the cron job.
|
| 	I would _much_ prefer either of these.  The idea of adding a
| cron job - even if there's a message displayed at the end of
| installation - makes me nervous.

I didn't meant "you add the cronjob and inform the user", but instead
"you inform the user how he can setup the cronjob, if he wants so".

Anyway, I agree with you.

|
|
| 				Robert Huff
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