From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 10 17:15:24 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 17:15:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57DE37B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBB1DPH16692; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:13:26 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBB1GGV06691; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:16:16 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200012110116.eBB1GGV06691@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:54:35 PST." <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:16:16 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > des 2000/12/10 04:54:35 PST > > Modified files: > etc crontab > Log: > On Sundays through Fridays, run daily at 03:01 am. > On Saturdays, run daily and weekly sequentially, starting at 03:01 am. > > This prevents daily and weekly from overlapping, while running weekly as > early as possible (i.e. as soon as daily finishes) to give it time to > finish before monthly starts at 05:30 am. > > It's probably possible to do something similar with monthly, making it > run as soon as daily (and possibly weekly, if the first of the month > is a Saturday) finishes, but this is left as an exercise for the reader. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.25 +3 -3 src/etc/crontab I think this should be backed out in favour of either Giorgos' solution (with a comment maybe saying what's going on) or the lockf solution. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message