On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Some things to look out for, though:
>
> - if the file alter-file is a conffile, there will be problems later when
> you upgrade the package containg the conffile.
I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at.
The way I'm thinking, if a package (say, cron
Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only
> difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather,
> you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example:
>
> echo "42 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily"
Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only
> difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather,
> you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example:
The only advantage to the monoli
Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only problem is that it uses Perl. I haven't read the Debian policies
> so I don't know if Perl (or a stripped down version of it) is one of the
> things I can assume is on even the most minimal system. If not, I can do
> the same thing with bash/sed, I
On 3 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a
> > update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab,
> > in a similar fasion to update-inetd.
>
> I think that this, or s
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Adam Heath wrote:
> How about this. Some one creates a script, that is run from /etc/crontab.
> Whenever this script is run, it checks to see if another program is supposed
> to be run. If so, it does it, then checks to see when the next script is
> supposed to run. It the
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a
> update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab,
> in a similar fasion to update-inetd.
I think that this, or something similar, is in the end, the right
solution.
Raul Miller wrote:
> If a user is overkill then cron probably is too. You'd probably do
> fine with something like
>
> (
> trap "" SIGHUP
> su nobody -c '
> while sleep 300; do
> whatever;
> done /dev/null 2>&1
-Original Message-
From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Config file management utility
>On 02-Dec-1997 12:45:31, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> H
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though.
> Mrtg is a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is
> overkill.
If a user is overkill then cron probably is too. You'd probably do
fine with something like
(
tr
Raul Miller wrote:
> Creating a user shouldn't be that big of a deal, as long as it's a
> useful abstraction. Having a user for a fax system seems apropriate.
Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though. Mrtg is
a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is
Steve Greenland wrote:
> That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package
> to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user,
> and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for
> news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little pac
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package
> to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user,
> and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for
> news or sendmail, but seems like overkill
On 02-Dec-1997 12:45:31, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file
> management script for the package config scripts to use?
>
> For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty.
> Mgetty placed the follow
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file
> management script for the package config scripts to use?
>
> For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty.
> Mgetty placed the following at the end of my /etc/c
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