From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 10 13:17:27 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 13:17:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE65737B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA51445; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:17:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Will Andrews , Alfred Perlstein , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab References: <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001210052846.E16205@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001210125142.B560@puck.firepipe.net> <20001210230346.A2878@hades.hell.gr> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Dec 2000 22:17:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:03:47 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas writes: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:51:42PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > Some people may want atomicity.. sometimes you just want to run "weekly' > > and nothing more. > I think that those people will most likely have the required cron > expertise to customize their crontabs :-) > > Am I missing a point here? What are you trying to say, Will? That it's a bad idea to have 'periodic weekly' automatically run 'periodic daily' to avoid having separate daily and weekly lines in /etc/crontab. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message