From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 2:38: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8644437B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 02:37:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:37:24 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Fw7q-0004lq-00; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:35:34 +0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:35:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant To: Doug Barton Cc: Gerhard Sittig , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) In-Reply-To: <3A5AE490.D251F590@gorean.org> 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 Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > But that's exactly what you're trying to do. I will not bother to > re-re-restate my points as to why what you're proposing is a bad idea. > Do all the testing you want, but make sure you understand that there > will be vigorous resistance to incorporating your proposed changes. Not if there's a cron_dtrt="NO" # Get cron to do the right thing in /etc/defaults/rc.conf -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk If it's broken really badly - don't fix it either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message