Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:37:55 -0500 From: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com> To: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cron(8) improvement Message-ID: <52792CF3.9050104@mail.lifanov.com> In-Reply-To: <52792B60.1030309@allanjude.com> References: <52792B60.1030309@allanjude.com>
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On 11/05/13 12:31, Allan Jude wrote: > This came up in discussion on IRC and I thought I should throw it at the > list so I don't forget. > > A user was asking how to do what linux cron does, where there is a > directory /etc/cron.d/ that packages and add files to to create crontabs. > > Making FreeBSD's cron (Vixie Cron) include /etc/cron.d/ and > /usr/local/etc/cron.d/ in the /etc/crontab format seems like a very > useful feature, especially for pkg(8) as it makes it easy and safe to > programatically add and remove crontabs as part of a package. > > Shouldn't we encourage packages to use periodic(8) when possible? - Nikolai Lifanov
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