Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:28:46 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20001210052846.E16205@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org>; from des@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0800 References: <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> [001210 04:54] wrote: > des 2000/12/10 04:54:35 PST > > Modified files: > etc crontab > Log: > On Sundays through Fridays, run daily at 03:01 am. > On Saturdays, run daily and weekly sequentially, starting at 03:01 am. > > This prevents daily and weekly from overlapping, while running weekly as > early as possible (i.e. as soon as daily finishes) to give it time to > finish before monthly starts at 05:30 am. > > It's probably possible to do something similar with monthly, making it > run as soon as daily (and possibly weekly, if the first of the month > is a Saturday) finishes, but this is left as an exercise for the reader. why not have weekly run daily and monthly run weekly which then runs daily? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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