On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 02:38:58AM +0300, Brock Rozen wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 at 02:00, julio wrote about "Re: [PROPOSAL] > Directories...": > > > > 0 * * * * generate_web_stats > > > @reboot eggdrop > > > > > > That second line (I think I got it right), is valid in a crontab file and > > > makes the job be run on reboot. (This is documented only in the cron > > > source > > > -- did you know @yearly, @monthly, @midnight, etc are valid too?) > > > > Thanks for the tip, I didn't knew crontab could be used for that. > > This really should be documented -- if that's the case. > > > > Sysadmins everywhere would curse us if we put a globally writable > > > directory > > > in /etc, which is on the root filesystem which is often pretty tightly > > > locked down. > > > > Maybe I haven't made my idea clear enough. .rc.d would be created on a > > per-user basis. > > Then why not have it be in the home directory of each user in a > sub-directory there. Just like ~/public_html is done with Apache. > > But if crontab does what it said above -- then is there any need for this? >
That's the idea, to create something like ~/.rc.d There is no need for local init dirs if cron does provide that functionality. I'm not sure, however, that this is a non-experimental functionality in cron (and even so it should be documented). Anyway, the user init directories can be easier for end users to maintain, and so it can be a good idea to implement them.
