On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > However, there's no suitable user for this and it needs > > to run as root anyway to reset the accounting stats. > > Am I stuck with daily? > > Why not add a job like: > > */15 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ipac-cron > > to /etc/crontab? The predecessor of at has done this, too.
Policy 2.3.0.1 says
3.5. Cron jobs
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Packages may not touch the configuration file `/etc/crontab', nor may
they modify the files in `/var/spool/cron/crontabs'.
Doesn't this rule this out?
thanks,
Hamish
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