From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 12:44: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 458F037B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:43:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83059 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Jan 2001 06:43:31 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.09 16-Jan-2001 (FreeBSD) X-URL: http://www.gbch.net X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/img/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-pgpkey.asc Message-Id: Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 06:43:31 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) References: <20001120193326.C27042@speedy.gsinet> <20001205225656.Z27042@speedy.gsinet> <20001220211548.T253@speedy.gsinet> <3A513799.75EAB470@FreeBSD.org> <20010102133239.V253@speedy.gsinet> <20010107170840.G253@speedy.gsinet> <3A5AE490.D251F590@gorean.org> <20010109124044.A16276@mithrandr.moria.org> <3A5B5656.E2AAF0B5@FreeBSD.org> <20010116192601.B253@speedy.gsinet> In-reply-to: <20010116192601.B253@speedy.gsinet> of Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:26:01 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:51 +1000, Greg Black wrote: > > > > If any change to expected cron behaviour is to be introduced, > > the traditional behaviour must be the default, with a knob > > documented in the man pages that can be twisted to get the > > oddball behaviour that is being proposed here. > > In http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24358 ("/etc/rc > variables for cron(8)") I suggest how to provide knobs to pass > parameters to cron as well as to switch to a different cron > executable, while of course leaving current behaviour as the > default. This looks fine to me, as far as it goes. I'm assuming here that the proposed new behaviour for cron will only be enabled if a specific flag is provided? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message