On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote:
BTW, regarding at and cron: what I was thinking of but never check
ehwther it is feasible is to make cron/at autostart a soon as some job
is scheduled. I.e. use .path trigger to check whether /etc/crontab and
user jobs exist, and start cron only then. Similarly for at. That way we
could support cron and at just fine, and wouldn't even have to run it by
default. I haven't looked into this in detail however, to see if the
file triggers systemd offers in .path units are already sufficient to
make this work.
What if no jobs are there and a non-root user adds a crontab later on? Who
will start cron (as root) ?
Btw, it's written "systemd", not "SystemD". I
even added a section about
the spelling now to the systemd homepage ;-)
At Openswan, we never wrote OpenSWAN and we're still telling people every week
to not use that. It's a lost battle :P
Paul