Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:40:19 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: David Hawthorne <dhawth@bitgravity.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about ports adding cronjobs Message-ID: <112A6326AC722E927FB2A41E@Macintosh.local> In-Reply-To: <746214C8-3863-4B29-8B01-230579284C76@bitgravity.com> References: <746214C8-3863-4B29-8B01-230579284C76@bitgravity.com>
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--==========C4CC4C34F3AD6871FF59========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On June 17, 2008 3:24:11 PM -0700 David Hawthorne=20 <dhawth@bitgravity.com> wrote: > I have a piece of software I've been working on that gathers stats about > the local host and shoves them into rrd files, with an accompanying web > front-end page that generates pretty graphs from the RRDs on demand. I > have a package done up for it, and I'd like to add it to the ports tree > eventually, but I'm stuck on how to get it to automagically add the > cronjob to have the stats gathering script run every five minutes, and I > don't know of any ports that add cronjobs off the top of my head to go > look at. > > Is there an approved standard for doing this? It doesn't have to be as > root, either, it can run under a different user. Any advice on how to > get the port to add the user (and remove it properly when the port is > deinstalled) properly and securely would be appreciated as well. > Look at mail/courier/files/crontab.in,=20 mail/exim/files/POST-INSTALL_NOTES.clamd and mail/mailman/pkg-install (and = those ports' associated files) for some examples of ways to deal with cron = jobs in a port. Paul Schmehl If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. --==========C4CC4C34F3AD6871FF59==========--
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