Julio wrote: > init scritps, I'd like to propose the creation of a mechanism to handle > user init scripts. Some users actually need to have persistent processes > between reboots, and using similar functionalities for the system init > mechanisms could be interesting.
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?) > To make things easier, this could be > implemented using a single user dir (something like .rc.d) to contain the > user scripts. These scripts would run after all the regular system init > scripts (for the 'unlocked' users). 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. -- see shy jo
