From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 10 22:20:52 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 22:20:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8573B37B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA55591; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBB6IUq88562; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:18:29 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: James FitzGibbon Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20001210221829.C84706@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200012110043.eBB0hYV06366@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20001210165229.A84706@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001210234818.A73780@ehlo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001210234818.A73780@ehlo.com>; from james@ehlo.com on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:48:18PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:48:18PM -0500, James FitzGibbon wrote: > What about putting a variable in rc.conf (is that the right place for > non-startup-related variables?) that represents the timeout value. Have it > default to 0 (or some other acceptable limit). That gives acceptable > behaviour plus an easily accessible place for admins to increase or even > remove the timeout. This would change the existing behavior in that `weekly' may not run if `daily' hangs. The commit that started all this just gave more time to `daily' before `weekly' ran -- but did not revent overlap of the two (was we never have). I'm not sure preventing `weekly' from running is the right thing. I guess we really want the "lockf" solution, but if the lock wasn't gotten after the timeout, run anyway. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message