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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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