From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 5 03:23:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01534 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 03:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep1-orange.clear.net.nz (fep1-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01529 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 03:23:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.clear.net.nz) Received: from buddha.clear.net.nz (buddha.clear.net.nz [192.168.24.106]) by fep1-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.11) with ESMTP id AAA21631; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:23:01 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by buddha.clear.net.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA06255; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:22:59 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jabley) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:22:59 +1300 From: Joe Abley To: Benedikt Stockebrand Cc: Yani Brankov , "Stephen J. Roznowski" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <19990106002259.B6168@clear.co.nz> References: <199901032313.SAA04829@istari.home.net> <368FFD42.F849603C@bulinfo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Benedikt Stockebrand on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:45:28AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:45:28AM +0100, Benedikt Stockebrand wrote: > Yani Brankov writes: > > > /etc/crontab duplicates the role of the user crontabs, but anyway I > > think it's more > > convenient to have all the necessary system crontab entries in one file. > > Aside from that it's a Good Thing[TM] to keep all configuration files > in /etc --- putting them in /var will bite you as soon as you have to > recover from a disk crash and find out you've never bothered to dump > /var (including assorted spools and log files). And /var has a way > stronger tendency to get messed up on a system crash than / has. If you've lost /var, isn't it probably a good thing that cron isn't running? You probably have more important things to worry about :) Turning your argument around, if it _is_ desirable to have crontabs available with a minimal number of filesystems mounted, why not move /var/cron to /etc/cron and dispense with /etc/crontab? It's not as if crontabs are so variably-sized to really merit living in /var. We seem to have taken the same approach with /etc/namedb, which I have seen more often located in /var/named... But maybe that's just me. I don't know the history of this one. Just an idea anyway :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message