Crontab and init scripts

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 16:45:54 UTC 2006


Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182033
> 
> What's Fedora policy on this?  I guess I'm mostly just interested in
> being consistant.  One option is provided in the bug report.  In this
> instance I could also add an exit to the config with a comment about
> removing the exit after it has been configured.
> 
> Yum I know is an example of a script that runs via cron that also has
> a init startup script.

While I'm not *that* fond of the yum approach (it's sort of a hack),
it's a better solution than running cron scripts for uninstalled things.

Bill




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