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Javier López
Asked: 2014-11-19 09:57:25 +0800 CST

Custom cron job filename for a package

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I'm willing to create a cron job for a package but when I define it in debian/cron.d it gets installed as /etc/cron.d/package. I'd prefer to be able to change the name of the cron job to be something like /etc/cron.d/foobar.

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  1. Best Answer

    According to man dh_installcron:

    --name=name
   Look for files named debian/package.name.cron.* and install them as
   etc/cron.*/name, instead of using the usual files and installing
   them as the package name.

    So name your debian/package-name.foobar.cron.d, and add to debian/rules:

    override_dh_installcron:
    dh_installcron --name=foobar
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