From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 10 5:28:50 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 05:28:47 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1304A37B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBADSkE24476; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:28:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:28:46 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20001210052846.E16205@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org>; from des@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0800 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dag-Erling Smorgrav [001210 04:54] wrote: > des 2000/12/10 04:54:35 PST > > Modified files: > etc crontab > Log: > On Sundays through Fridays, run daily at 03:01 am. > On Saturdays, run daily and weekly sequentially, starting at 03:01 am. > > This prevents daily and weekly from overlapping, while running weekly as > early as possible (i.e. as soon as daily finishes) to give it time to > finish before monthly starts at 05:30 am. > > It's probably possible to do something similar with monthly, making it > run as soon as daily (and possibly weekly, if the first of the month > is a Saturday) finishes, but this is left as an exercise for the reader. why not have weekly run daily and monthly run weekly which then runs daily? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message