From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 12:56: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55CF337B6AC for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 96870 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jan 2001 06:55:34 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.09 16-Jan-2001 (FreeBSD) X-URL: http://www.gbch.net X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/img/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-pgpkey.asc Message-Id: Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:55:34 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) References: <20001220211548.T253@speedy.gsinet> <3A513799.75EAB470@FreeBSD.org> <20010102133239.V253@speedy.gsinet> <20010107170840.G253@speedy.gsinet> <3A5AE490.D251F590@gorean.org> <20010109124044.A16276@mithrandr.moria.org> <3A5B5656.E2AAF0B5@FreeBSD.org> <20010116192601.B253@speedy.gsinet> <20010117184854.G253@speedy.gsinet> In-reply-to: <20010117184854.G253@speedy.gsinet> of Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:48:54 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > - modify cron but make the new code optional while defaulting to > off I prefer option 1. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message