[Rt-commit] rt branch, 4.2/suggest-cron.d, created. rt-4.2.3-85-g8b0cb06

Alex Vandiver alexmv at bestpractical.com
Wed Apr 16 17:39:02 EDT 2014


The branch, 4.2/suggest-cron.d has been created
        at  8b0cb06d90eadfcd64bcf24ffd24485b333c8ddf (commit)

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commit 8b0cb06d90eadfcd64bcf24ffd24485b333c8ddf
Author: Alex Vandiver <alexmv at bestpractical.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 16 17:38:38 2014 -0400

    Root's crontab is not discoverable; suggest /etc/cron.d instead

diff --git a/README b/README
index e4636bd..d9ba3bc 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -188,14 +188,12 @@ GENERAL INSTALLATION
     To generate email digest messages, you must arrange for the provided
     utility to be run once daily, and once weekly. You may also want to
     arrange for the rt-email-dashboards utility to be run hourly.  For
-    example, if your task scheduler is cron, you can configure it as
-    follows:
-
-        crontab -e    # as the RT administrator (probably root)
-        # insert the following lines:
-        0 0 * * * /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-digest -m daily
-        0 0 * * 0 /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-digest -m weekly
-        0 * * * * /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-dashboards
+    example, if your task scheduler is cron, you can configure it by
+    adding the following lines as /etc/cron.d/rt:
+
+        0 0 * * * root /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-digest -m daily
+        0 0 * * 0 root /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-digest -m weekly
+        0 * * * * root /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-dashboards
 
 10) Configure the RT email gateway.  To let email flow to your RT
     server, you need to add a few lines of configuration to your mail

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