Comments on: OpenDNS updater for linux/ubuntu http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/opendns-updater-for-linux-ubuntu-679.html HOWTOs and gotchas and tidbits, oh my. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: matthew http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/opendns-updater-for-linux-ubuntu-679.html/comment-page-1#comment-2173 matthew Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:15:43 +0000 http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/?p=679#comment-2173 @Darrell: Sure. When I backup a unix box, I normally only worry about rsync'ing /etc, /home, and then doing a mysqldump. Because crontabs are stored in /var/spool/cron, it's just one more thing to worry about backing up and restoring later. Automated installation scripts are also possible with cron.d, because the script knows it owns a whole file, rather than trying to do surgery on a file it has to share with other applications. @Darrell: Sure. When I backup a unix box, I normally only worry about rsync’ing /etc, /home, and then doing a mysqldump. Because crontabs are stored in /var/spool/cron, it’s just one more thing to worry about backing up and restoring later.

Automated installation scripts are also possible with cron.d, because the script knows it owns a whole file, rather than trying to do surgery on a file it has to share with other applications.

]]> By: Darrell Denlinger http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/opendns-updater-for-linux-ubuntu-679.html/comment-page-1#comment-2168 Darrell Denlinger Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:23:56 +0000 http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/?p=679#comment-2168 Could you add a few sentences about why you prefer cron.d to crontab -e? Could you add a few sentences about why you prefer cron.d to crontab -e?

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