On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:27:53PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Because sometimes the jobs need to run as root. Quite often I suspect. > > My package ipac (which started this) needs to run ipfwadm to configure > > and reset the IP accounting rules, which requires root. > > Why not use a daemon? In peal, that would be a ten-liner...
That's certainly possible, but it's a bit of a shame to be implementing custom versions of cron, when cron can do exactly this already but we don't have any way to configure it so. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
