(bcc: cron maintainers, request-tracker3.8 maintainers, debianutils
maintainers, jtmd)
Hi,
Karl E. Jorgensen noticed that the current advice for naming files in
cron.d breaks for packages with a dot in their name and proposed a
small policy change to fix that. Seconds? Objections?
The proposed change follows:
Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Karl E. Jorgensen" <k...@jorgensen.org.uk> writes:
>> Can do. are two sentences in secion 9.5 which will need to be changed.
>>
>> The 2nd sentence in 9.5, which currently reads:
>>
>> If a package wants to install a job that has to be executed via
>> cron, it should place a file with the name of the package in one
>> or more of the following directories:
>>
>> could be changed to:
>>
>> If a package wants to install a job that has to be executed via
>> cron, it should place a file with the name of the package (with a
>> file name as specified in section 9.5.1) in one or more of the
>> following directories:
>>
>> And further down, the sentence which currently reads:
>>
>> If a certain job has to be executed at some other frequency or at
>> a specific time, the package should install a file
>> /etc/cron.d/package
>>
>> could be changed to:
>>
>> If a certain job has to be executed at some other frequency or at
>> a specific time, the package should install a file
>> /etc/cron.d/package (with a file name as specified in section
>> 9.5.1)
>>
>> and a new section:
>>
>> 9.5.1 File Names for Cron Jobs
>>
>> File names representing cron jobs should generally be named
>> according to the package from which it comes.
>>
>> If a package supplies multiple crontab files in the same
>> directory, the file names should all start with the name of the
>> package followed by a hyphen ('-') and a suitable suffix.
>>
>> The resulting file name must not include any '.' or '+' characters
>> as this will cause cron to ignore them. Underscores ('_') should
>> be used instead of '.' and '+' characters.
>>
>> How does that sound?
>
> Looks good to me. Seconded, with the minor correction in the
> second-to-last paragraph of s/crontab files/cron job files/ since,
> properly speaking, only the files in /etc/cron.d are actually crontab
> files. The rest are just executables.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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