2010/11/25 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 21:56 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> That's the point of the .path unit. i.e. you can list dirs to watch. If >> a user then drop a file into one of those dirs cron gets automatically >> started. >> >> Basically, in your .path unit you'd write something like this: >> >> [Path] >> PathExists=/etc/crontab >> DirectoryNotEmpty=/etc/cron.d >> DirectoryNotEmpty=/var/spool/cron >> >> And the moment where /etc/crontab starts to exist, or somebody drops a >> file into /etc/cron.d or /var/spool/cron crond would be automatically >> started. > > But what is the point of this? The /etc/crontab always exists and there > always are some files in /etc/cron.d. Actually it's true, but in the near future all standard cron jobs might be runned by systemd http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.timer.html It's not 100 % cron replacement now, but who knows what the future holds :) Kind regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
