From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 20 17:06:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16628 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxyb2.san.rr.com (proxyb2-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16584 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by proxyb2.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04900; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:05:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34EE2851.B0940B4E@san.rr.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:05:21 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0220 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Roshchin CC: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/crontab References: <199802210015.SAA05624@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Since people are discussing what they want to see in 2.2.6, > I decided to repeat my old posting since it went unnoticed > (there were neither positive nor negative response to it) Actually there was a tremendous response to this very thread not too long ago, not sure if it was you who started it or not. To summarize, there is no time to run this where it won't conflict with someone in the world somewhere, so not changing it is the way to go. If it's a huge concern to you, I suggest you fix it locally. Good luck, Doug > /etc/crontab: > > # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance > 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root > > This script will not work once a year, and twice a day on another day, > at most places in the world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message