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On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:13, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> wrote:

> Right. The best way to handle this is likely to have the ports install
> the example cron to ${PREFIX}/share/portname/ or wherever else they
> normally put examples, with instructions in the pkg-message on how to
> enable the cron. The same way that ports that add something to apache
> don't install to the apache etc/apache22/Includes/ directory, but
> instead tell you to add the lines to a file there.

It=92s probably better to have the port=92s rc.d script verify the =
crontab is in place, and install it if it=92s not.=