From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 25 08:44:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8913E106566C for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:44:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FB614F148; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:44:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4ECF5562.7060909@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:44:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Bethke References: <20111125070241.GA7915@DataIX.net> <166BF54D-CEA6-49F5-B8A0-14A647F94766@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <166BF54D-CEA6-49F5-B8A0-14A647F94766@lassitu.de> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jason Hellenthal , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:44:19 -0000 On 11/25/2011 00:29, Stefan Bethke wrote: > I didn't even know cron had this feature. Why wouldn't you add custom rc.d scripts for these tasks, or add the commands to rc.local? Personally I find this feature very useful for unprivileged users to do their own stuff at startup. Doug -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/