cron problem

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Aug 25 19:27:09 UTC 2006


On Friday 25 August 2006 9:15 am, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem that I need an advice to solve.
> 
> My alpinelinux project is run from RAM. The idea is, if you need
> persisten /var, you need a disk. Only /etc is backed up since all system
> configuration goes there.
> 
> Now, as a part of the system configuration, a user might want to add
> custom cronjobs. In a debian system he can put stuff in /etc/cron.d
> or /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}.
> 
> But with busybox crond its impossible to implement something like that,
> without depending on /var/spool/cron/crontabs.
...
> So what do you suggest?

A symlink?

Rob
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