From: Bruce Harvey (BruceH@ROUTESCAPE.COM)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 09:22:50 EDT
I suppose the comfort level depends on who and how many (and at what level)
have their hands in the system files. In my environment, I don't dare make
things too complex, sad to say, in crontab and elsewhere ... scripts are the
only safe location for some of these routines. With trust and competence,
however, I agree with you.
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Bruce T. Harvey, Special Projects Developer
bruceh@routescape.com, www.routescape.com
Insight Distribution Systems --- Hunt Valley, MD
-----Original Message-----
From: Green, Simon [mailto:SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:15 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: [aix-l] Question about crontab
My first reaction was that I agreed with you, but I can see an advantage of
having it all in crontab. Anybody glancing through crontab can clearly see
that the command is only executing at the beginning of the month; they don't
need to know about extra processing in the script.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Harvey [mailto:BruceH@ROUTESCAPE.COM]
> Sent: 19 September 2002 12:36
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Question about crontab
>
>
> Personally, I'd rather keep the complexity in a script than in a
> system-level file. Less chance of anything "unusual" causing
> problems.
> Just my cautionary outlook.
>
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> Bruce T. Harvey, Special Projects Developer
> Insight Distribution Systems, Hunt Valley, MD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunder Iyengar [mailto:Sunder.Iyengar@VERITAS.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:19 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: [aix-l] Question about crontab
>
>
> Here is another way to do this in the crontab file itself.
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