Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:24:11 -0700 From: David Hawthorne <dhawth@bitgravity.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Question about ports adding cronjobs Message-ID: <746214C8-3863-4B29-8B01-230579284C76@bitgravity.com>
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I have a piece of software I've been working on that gathers stats about the local host and shoves them into rrd files, with an accompanying web front-end page that generates pretty graphs from the RRDs on demand. I have a package done up for it, and I'd like to add it to the ports tree eventually, but I'm stuck on how to get it to automagically add the cronjob to have the stats gathering script run every five minutes, and I don't know of any ports that add cronjobs off the top of my head to go look at. Is there an approved standard for doing this? It doesn't have to be as root, either, it can run under a different user. Any advice on how to get the port to add the user (and remove it properly when the port is deinstalled) properly and securely would be appreciated as well. Bonus points for providing the lines that would need to go into a CONTENTS file for the package, because that's what I'm working with right now for testing it on multiple machines. Thanks!
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