On Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 08:44 -0400, quoth Matthew Miller: =>On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:41:58AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: =>> crontab -e =>> add at the end =>> @reboot /usr/local/bin/noip2 => ^^^^^^ => =>Woah, cool. I never knew that -- very useful. I don't recommend it. Most things that happen at boot time are under root it. When you place things in rc.local you know the order they will run in. Crontab entires are typically intended to not know anything about order. To say that using this feature is obscure is an understatement. Typically, people not only don't know to look in a crontab to see what's going to happen at boot, they also don't have a convention for a location of the file to be fed to crontab to reset it when needed. If you didn't write it down it never happened. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
