On 2007-05-11 04:53, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > 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. I sent another one after 8.5 hours.
I see in the headers that #1 made it to mail.suse..de within seconds of my sending it, but it sat there until Friday morning, 0600 GMT. From then back to me was another very few seconds. Apologies again to the list. Next time I'll wait a day :-) > > > > 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). Not just RPMs, whatever Debian calls their equivalent thingy and binary tarballs are also included :-) I was also including locally compiled packages under the term "packages", and those can be installed by a non-root user. > > ... have to /edit and parse/ the [system crontab], > which is way more dificult than simply copying over a file. > Very true. I'm probably just nit-picking -- how often do any ever install anything as non-root that wants a cron job? :-) -- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- HG Wells -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
