On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 09:31 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 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 :) I suppose the future holds systemd replacing the whole operating system. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. :) -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
