Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:37:00 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Message-ID: <199712201037.LAA29409@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199712142220.XAA01080@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199712150153.JAA27760@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote: > I use what I thought was a neat hack. I run the daily/weekly/montly etc > type scripts several times a night. In daily's case, it's 2am, 3am, 4am, > 5am. It keeps a 'last run' timestamp in /var/db and at start time, it > checks to see if it was within the last 12 hours or so and exits if so. Hmm, i like the `generic' solution better. I always meant to review and commit that contribution, but currently have a hard time finding it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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