Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-09 Thread Craig White
On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:59 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 09.12.2011 01:03, schrieb Reindl Harald: > >> why are radnom people try to tell me how i have to do my job >> without knowing anyting about how i work? >> >> no there is no need on the production machine becuase all preparing >> happens o

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2011 09:59, schrieb Alexander Dalloz: > Am 09.12.2011 01:03, schrieb Reindl Harald: > >> why are radnom people try to tell me how i have to do my job >> without knowing anyting about how i work? >> >> no there is no need on the production machine becuase all preparing >> happens on a de

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-09 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 09.12.2011 01:03, schrieb Reindl Harald: > why are radnom people try to tell me how i have to do my job > without knowing anyting about how i work? > > no there is no need on the production machine becuase all preparing > happens on a dedicated environment with where local and caching repos >

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 09.12.2011 00:53, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2011 00:53, schrieb Cliff Pratt: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: >>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald >>> wrote: Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: > It's a good idea NOT to p

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >> It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change >> the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change >> root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: >> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change the existi

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> fedora did not overwrite any crontab from FC5 to F15 now because >>> rpm-packages mark such configurations so the new versions get installed >>> as .rpmnew >> >> Which means the changes those versions would like to have made won't >> take

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >>> It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change >>> the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change >>> r

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >> It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change >> the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change >> root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by m

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: > It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change > the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change > root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by maintenance. /etc/crontab will NEVER get overwritten to mak

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by maintenance. We generally put cron stuff in a locally named and created member in /etc/cron.d. Cheers, Clif

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Rushton Martin
>From man 8 cron Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts ... Cron also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5) ). So cron itself knows about /etc/cron.d and