Question about ports adding cronjobs

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Pietro Cerutti wrote:
| 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".

Ups.. I think I've misunderstood your comment. Sorry for the noise.

|
| Anyway, I agree with you.
|
| |
| |
| |                 Robert Huff
| |
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