On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Steven W. Orr 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. I agree, probably not the best for system tasks. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
