[mythtv-users] does myth 'best practice' have me adding anything to cron?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:21:01 +0000, you wrote:

>I was just wondering, instead of copying or moving 
>/etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database to cron.daily, would it be better to 
>link it (symbolic or hard) from weekly to daily? That way, if the 
>package manager updated the cron.weekly version, the daily version would 
>update too. Does cron work with symbolic links?
>
>Similarly with the optimize script, would it be better to link to it 
>from cron.daily or cron.weekly rather than copy it from the contrib 
>folder, so that it would get updated?
>
>John

I have never tried using links for cron jobs, but there is no reason I
can think of why they would not work.  However, in my case I needed to
customise both copies of the mythtv-database file, as my destination
directories are both different from the default.