Bug#759316: Document the use of /etc/default for cron jobs

2014-08-27 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Charles Plessy, 2014-08-27 06:56+0900: I am unsure what the standard practice is in this situation. Can you and others comment on the existence or not of alternatives, in Debian and elsewhere ? The only alternatives I know of are: 1. to put all the configuration in the cron job script itself;

Bug#759316: Document the use of /etc/default for cron jobs

2014-08-26 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, For practical reasons, variables that are used to configure init scripts behaviour are placed in separate files in /etc/default, as documented in Policy §9.3.2. The same is often applied to cron

Bug#759316: Document the use of /etc/default for cron jobs

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:55:29AM +0200, Tanguy Ortolo a écrit : For practical reasons, variables that are used to configure init scripts behaviour are placed in separate files in /etc/default, as documented in Policy §9.3.2. The same is often applied to cron jobs as well, for the same