Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:45:24 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> Subject: Re: Refactoring calendar(1) (was: svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars) Message-ID: <20200924224524.GB53226@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <202009242135.08OLZAkQ036749@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <202009241555.08OFtjKx047062@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <202009242135.08OLZAkQ036749@slippy.cwsent.com>
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--xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 24 September 2020 at 14:35:10 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <202009241555.08OFtjKx047062@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. > Grimes" > writes: >> -- Start of PGP signed section. >>> [Trimmed] >>> >>> People, please adjust your posts. It's hard fighting your way through >>> a lot of expired verbiage. Thanks for the trimming. >>> While I have your attention, does anybody think that the -a option of >>> calendar(1) is worth keeping? It goes through *all* calendar files on >>> a system and mails them to the owner. It has the interesting side >>> effect (we wouldn't want to call it a bug) that root gets three copies >>> (one each for root, toor and daemon). I can't see anything useful >>> there that a per-user cron job can't do. >> >> What the per-user cron job does is create a larger workload for >> systems that are expecting all users to be running calendar, as >> possible in an acedemic system which each student has a login. > > Have it use libxo might be a good exercise for someone wanting to get back > into it after a while, or a student. How would that address the issue? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl9tIYQACgkQIubykFB6QiOLLACeMyPaa6HLAIz/IDVQvnWlyfzE s4cAn2UDQA0Prn1mu8bh9OtdsLraK6ZL =lcUH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE--
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