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Hi! |
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Ryan Reich wrote: |
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> On 7/1/07, Daniel Schömer <daniel.schoemer@×××.net> wrote: |
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>> $ sudo fcrontab -l systab |
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>> [...] |
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>> %hourly 0-30 run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly |
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>> %daily * * run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily |
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>> [...] |
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> Thanks for sharing this. [...] This is a more elegant solution |
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> than the run-crons method, though it doesn't have quite the |
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> same effect as instructing cron to actually run each command |
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> separately (their outputs will be mailed in conglomerate, |
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> rather than one mail per periodic program. This is, according |
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> to your preferences, either a bug or a feature. |
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I have never really thought about the combined mails. I'm using |
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this on my desktop with only a few scripts in |
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/etc/cron.{h,d,w,m}*/. Thinking about it now, I would prefer one |
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mail per script. At least when there are more than just a few |
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scripts run by cron. |
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I can't see an elegant way implementing this directly in fcron. |
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A modified version of run-parts that's capable of mailing the |
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output of each script (or all in conglomerate if specified) to |
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the runnig user (or a specified account) may do. |
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> Less ambiguously a bug, though, is that the syslog will only |
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> record running run-parts and not which parts were run). |
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Would it be sufficient to let this also be done by run-parts? |
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Then there would be records of fcron starting run-parts and |
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records of run-parts starting each script. |
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> Have you any thoughts on what to do with check_system_crontabs? |
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> Its schedule is inherently reactive and not periodic, so |
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> really, administering it with (f)cron at all is a logical |
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> error. That's why I suggested inotify in the first place. |
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I must say, I can't remember that I've seen check_system_crontabs |
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on my desktop; maybe I just suppressed it :-). Now that I think |
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of it, I'm remembering an elog message from the fcron ebuild |
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telling me to use the fcrontab systab for system-wide jobs |
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instead of /etc/{f,}crontab. |
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Using inotify sounds more logical for me than using (f)cron for |
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this. |
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Daniel Schömer |
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