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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 !




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