Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:32:07 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <14900.15527.883895.83812@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <30694770@toto.iv>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> types: > Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:51:42PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > > Some people may want atomicity.. sometimes you just want to run "weekly' > > > and nothing more. > > I think that those people will most likely have the required cron > > expertise to customize their crontabs :-) > > > > Am I missing a point here? What are you trying to say, Will? > That it's a bad idea to have 'periodic weekly' automatically run > 'periodic daily' to avoid having separate daily and weekly lines in > /etc/crontab. Why not do it the other way around, and have "periodic daily" automatically run "periodic weekly" and "periodic monthly" on the appropriate days of the week? That allows running the weekly alone trivial - just run the daily periodic script that runs the weeklies. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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