Crontab and init scripts
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 16:47:01 UTC 2006
Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said:
> 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.
Make that 'unconfigured/not running', not 'uninstalled', of course...
Bill
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