From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 5 13:05:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08069 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from epistolic.cynic.net (epistolic.cynic.net [199.175.137.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08062 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:05:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by epistolic.cynic.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA15527; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:02:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:02:11 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Joe Abley cc: Benedikt Stockebrand , Yani Brankov , "Stephen J. Roznowski" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? In-Reply-To: <19990106002259.B6168@clear.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Joe Abley wrote: > 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. In fact, we're about to do that in NetBSD. The log file (previously in /var/cron/log) will be moved to /var/log/cron. The reasoning behind this is that crontabs are one of the few `permanent' pieces of information in /var. If you lose var you lose at jobs, mail, various queued stuff (uucp, printer, etc.), it's true. But if you just drop in /var from the distribution sets, your system should still keep running as it did before in the long run. So moving the cron jobs out means you don't *have* to back up var in the way that you *have* to back up /etc. cjs -- Curt Sampson 604 801 5335 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. The most widely ported operating system in the world: http://www.netbsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message