Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org> writes: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:43:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I suspect that we need to document that packages may rely on @reboot, >> @yearly, @monthly, @weekly, @daily, and @hourly, and also on the */2 >> syntax. We also need to document that, contrary POSIX, files in >> /etc/cron.d have seven fields instead of six, with the sixth field >> naming the local user as which the cron job runs. That's a common >> error when writing cron.d files. >> >> Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does >> anyone here use bcron to comment on that?) > bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot and the other @*. See > http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bcrontab&sektion=5 Hm. I wonder how many packages that ship cron.d files expect the @* stuff to work. If none, then maybe we should document that packages shouldn't rely on it. Everything other than @reboot is trivial to replace. @reboot is a lot trickier, although I suspect most packages use an init script. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
