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Date:      10 Dec 2000 22:17:17 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab
Message-ID:  <xzpelzg3rj6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:03:47 %2B0200"
References:  <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001210052846.E16205@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001210125142.B560@puck.firepipe.net> <20001210230346.A2878@hades.hell.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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