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[Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 21:20:27 -0400
Pierre Abbat <phma AT webjockey.net> wrote:

> On Monday 10 May 2004 14:32, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to have some input about the idea i wrote in bug #6848 [1], and
> > possibly one of our gurus implementing it because I'm a bit busy
> > currently :)
> >
> > Here's the basic idea so you don't have to go to the bug if you don't
> > care about this ;)
> > - add a new init facility 'cron' and have all different cron providers
> >   provide that
> > - add a SCHEDULER or CRON provides to all cron providers
> > - optional_depend on SCHEDULER/CRON in exim and do the choice of crontab
> >   format in POST_INSTALL based on the value of the init facility 'cron',
> >   i.e.  base it on what cron is actually used, with a default of doing
> >   nothing except issue a warning when the user uses an unknown cron
> >   implementation
> >
> > The problem this is trying to solve is that the exim spell depends on
> > some cron implementation while it works fine without any cron, and that
> > exim does crontab editing based on which cron is used.
> 
> I think it should just drop a script in cron.hourly and not worry about 
> what 
> sort of cron is being used. I wrote fcrontabs so that I could put a rottlog 
> script in cron.daily and anyone else could put a script in one of those and 
> get it executed. Anyone want to write hc-crontabs?

Sure, i'll give it a go today.
When it's done, do I submit it as a new spell?

> 
> phma
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