Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:16:16 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <200012110116.eBB1GGV06691@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:54:35 PST." <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> 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 <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> 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
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