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The Thursday 2007-05-10 at 23:49 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> My apologies if this is a duplicate post; 12-1/2 hours later, it still
> hasn't arrived here from the listserver.
Tri-plicate, in fact.
> On 2007-05-09 18:36, Joachim Schrod wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > No, sorry, not at all. /etc/cron.d/ is *very* valuable.
> >
> > It is needed if one
> > (a) wants to be able to install and de-install a cron file without
> > changing /etc/crontab, e.g., by a package,
>
> In 9.3, non-root users don't have write permission in /etc/cron.d, so
> only packages installed by root could create a cron file there.
Packages are always installed by root; users can not install rpms (ie,
packages).
The advantage is obvious: an rpm can simply install its own file there. If
they only could use /etc/crontab, they would have to /edit and parse/ the
file, which is way more dificult than simply copying over a file.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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