Re: Crontab and init scripts

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:45 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mike McGrath (mmcgrath 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),

open to suggestions on better ways of making sure cron jobs should or
should not run :)

-sv