crontab same time execution order
Rich Morin
rdm at cfcl.com
Sat Jul 5 09:48:45 PDT 2003
At 10:43 PM -0700 7/4/03, Dave McCammon wrote:
>Perhaps this predictable behavior is in FreeBSD only.
>(I don't have access to other platforms). Or perhaps
>my simple test was too simple. It just seemed to be
>too predictable to not at least try to get some feed
>back.
I'm not a big fan of programming to take advantage of undocumented
implementation details; they may change unexpectedly. Why not:
* Write a wrapper script that does the desired ancillary actions,
running the original command in the process:
:
# newsyslog_lcl - wrapper for newsyslog
... pre-actions ...
newsyslog
... post-actions ...
* Change /etc/crontab to invoke newsyslog_lcl, rather than newsyslog
The usual caveats apply, of course, to writing root-level programs.
-r
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