From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 21 03:23:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09026 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 03:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09016; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 03:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA16904; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:22:52 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:22:51 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Igor Roshchin cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/crontab In-Reply-To: <199802210015.SAA05624@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, 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) > > /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, This is a bug in cron(8), not in crontab(5) or /etc/daily. There is a rumour that someone has patches to cron which will correct this; would that person please make him/herself known so the patches can be reviewed and committed. /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message