Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 18:17:23 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Revamping /etc/daily, weekly, monthly Message-ID: <199801021717.SAA22316@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199801011220.MAA17567@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <871zyru400.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk>
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Jacob Bohn Lorensen <jacob@jblhome.ping.dk> wrote: > I had forgotten all about /etc/crontab (hmmm - what's it for? For those who are used to the old BSD cron... i don't like it much myself, and typically delete it immediately. > Then there should be a 7th field in /etc/crontab (corresponding to the > 6th field in /var/cron/tabs/*). Nope. This will cause a large incompatibility (with major upgrade hassles for the users). If at all, encode the `once' (or `boot-time') somewhere into the time specification, where it logically belongs to. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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