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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:24:39 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)
Message-ID:  <200101172024.JAA10303@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010117184854.G253@speedy.gsinet>
References:  <nospam-3a64b2731814449@maxim.gbch.net>; from gjb@gbch.net on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:43:31AM %2B1000

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On 17 Jan 2001, at 18:48, Gerhard Sittig wrote:

> I'm just editing the PR with the cron patches to "catch up" with
> OpenBSD in this respect (stating that it doesn't handle DST, but
> has benefits whenever one's clock is jumping or cron waking up
> too late and _could_ be extended to handle DST).  Therein I
> suggest to
> - not touch current cron at all but switch to a different
>   executable by means of the newly introduced rc.conf variables
>   or to

This is the safest route IMHO.  No risk for that that choose not to use it.

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