NanoBSD and cron

[Tim Bishop]

Hi all,

I hope this is the appropriate place to discuss NanoBSD.

I've got a Soekris box and I've used NanoBSD to get FreeBSD 7 on it. No
problems so far - NanoBSD is great :-)

But I'm wondering what the best way to do cron jobs is? I could store
the per-user crontabs in /conf so they go in to the /var ramdisk, but
I'd have to rebuild the image to change them. What I need is something
like /cfg but for /var.

I suppose the easiest solution is to write an rc script that sets the
cron entries up on boot? Or use the global /etc/crontab file instead?

Any other solutions?

Thanks,

Tim.

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[Eugene Grosbein]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:23:37PM +0000, Tim Bishop wrote:

> I suppose the easiest solution is to write an rc script that sets the
> cron entries up on boot? Or use the global /etc/crontab file instead?

If your your NanoBSD does not really serve several human "non-root" users,
just use global /etc/crontab and be happy :-)

OTOH, I sometimes use a software looking to /var with NanoBSD,
so I just place symlinks into initial /var contents that /etc/rc.diskless
uses to populate /var at boot time. And these symlinks point to /etc
that is preserved in /cfg.

Eugene Grosbein
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