From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 20 4:30:47 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ntua.gr (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2488B37B4C5 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from netmode.ntua.gr (dolly.netmode.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.13.10]) by ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16727; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:30:41 +0200 (EET) Received: (from past@localhost) by netmode.ntua.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAKCawR06683; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:36:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:36:58 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20001120143658.B4415@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Mail-Followup-To: Panagiotis Astithas , Gerhard Sittig , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200011191816.KAA81473@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001119214008.Z27042@speedy.gsinet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001119214008.Z27042@speedy.gsinet>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:40:08PM +0100 X-Organizational-Unit: Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory X-Organization: National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-450 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-452 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:40:08PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:16 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > dougb 2000/11/19 10:16:47 PST > > > > Modified files: > > etc crontab > > Log: > > When to run the periodic/daily event has had several rounds of discussion > > over the past couple years. The most recent came to the general consensus > > that this was the best time, but no one actually made the change, so I'll > > don my asbestos undies and dive in. > > Recalling the thread I thought the best solution would have been > the OpenBSD approach with a little logic in cron(8) to not start > a single cronjob multiple times (or even better: to start it > exactly once by even starting it when its time frame is skipped > in this special night). Extending the program's code would make > *any* time in crontab work -- even the previously setup one. :) Actually the time of 3:01 am is going to create a problem for us in Eastern European Time (GMT+2), where it was ok before. If it is too much trouble to modify cron, could somebody modify sysinstall to set this time based on the locality setting of the user, instead? -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message