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To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab 
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Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> types:
> > Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes:
> > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes:
> > > > 59      1       *       *       1-5,7   root    periodic daily
> > > > 59      1       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
> > > Using 0-5 is the same as 1-5,7 :-)
> > 
> > Yes, I realized that afterwards. But - what do people think? Should I
> > commit the proposed change?
> I don't see anybody complaining (given that the second line says 
> ``periodic daily weekly'').
> 
> It makes things a bit un-orthogonal though.  Maybe something like 
> this would be more appropriate:

Since we're considering alternatives, how about something like this
for /etc/periodic/daily/99?.weekly:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Run the weekly tasks
#

case `date +%w` in
    6) echo ""
       echo "Weekly tasks (output mailed separately)" ;
       periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root & && rc=0 || rc=3;;
esac


The same solution works for monthly. Sorting out the order for
weekly/local/monthly needs to be done - then again, this also allows
you to change that order, which the other doesn't.

	<mike


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