From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 2 09:24:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA16615 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA16566 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id SAA09931 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 18:23:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA22316; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 18:17:23 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 18:17:23 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199801021717.SAA22316@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199801011220.MAA17567@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <871zyru400.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Revamping /etc/daily, weekly, monthly X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jacob Bohn Lorensen 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. ;-)