From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 07:25:11 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 02B22106566C for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:25:11 +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 4C27D150EB3; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4ED0944E.7020709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:25:02 -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: Cy Schubert References: <201111260708.pAQ78wvO045883@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <201111260708.pAQ78wvO045883@slippy.cwsent.com> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Evans , 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: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:25:11 -0000 On 11/25/2011 23:08, Cy Schubert wrote: > If average users really do need to run something at boot they're likely > running some kind of service I don't think second-guessing what users are doing is going to be a useful exercise here. I will also tell you flat out that this is not the only use for an @reboot cron job. Rather than debating whether users *should* be doing it this way or not, can we please focus on fixing it to be non-stupid? -- "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/