cron(8) improvement
Lyndon Nerenberg
lyndon at orthanc.ca
Fri Nov 8 04:48:41 UTC 2013
On Nov 7, 2013, at 19:46, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't like the idea of having untracked files installed by the rc(8)
> script. Why not install the cron.d snippet by default but leave
> everything in it commented out with instructions at the beginning to
> uncomment the contents to enable it?
It’s un-necessarily complicated. The package manifest can specify both locations for the crontab file. If the copy isn’t made, at package removal the worst that will happen is a warning diagnostic will be printed about the missing file.
—lyndon
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