Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:49:53 -0500 From: Greg Balfour <greg.bal4@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Refactoring calendar(1) (was: svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars) Message-ID: <CAOYYAr%2BvCTaR4M6fbmqorP-RGYh1xSOQHDGwTt2d0qb8Ny1ULA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:07:08AM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > While I have your attention, does anybody think that the -a option of > calendar(1) is worth keeping? It goes through *all* calendar files on > a system and mails them to the owner. It has the interesting side > effect (we wouldn't want to call it a bug) that root gets three copies > (one each for root, toor and daemon). I can't see anything useful > there that a per-user cron job can't do. I actually use the -a option. But it hasn't fully worked since 10.0-RELEASE. See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205580 Still present in 12.2-BETA2. I maintain a local set of patches that solves this bug, but it requires the installation of the tradcpp port/package so I've never shared them, but would if someone wants them.
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