Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:20:01 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?B?VG9tZWsgV2HFgmFzemVr?= <tmwalaszek@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) Message-ID: <53AA8631.307@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokGeJ7NrR7dh6PfmaM87qoRZXJ118qiWGz-T7Kc-qweJg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN3T69vCQTb1hU%2BAUKg%2BKLgsuCttLxYS6u2r9k3w5LM2D4zZoA@mail.gmail.com> <53A72666.8090101@cox.net> <53A78C13.8030909@freebsd.org> <53A82008.9050002@digiware.nl> <CAN3T69u8GfPiamanZTopDt9LC9-Kgw5JOk93a3BPnU59RAuDgg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokGeJ7NrR7dh6PfmaM87qoRZXJ118qiWGz-T7Kc-qweJg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2014-06-23 18:53, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 23 June 2014 06:26, Tomek Wałaszek <tmwalaszek@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I got your point. >> From the technical perspective it should be quite easy to implement this >> feature, but I'm not sure whether this will get positive feedback. I >> remeber that there was a discussion on the OpenBSD mailing lists (there was >> even a patch for this) but they don't like the idea :) maybe FreeBSD >> project will like it, I don't know. >> >> At the moment I want to update FreeBSD cron to ISC cron (with all the >> features that FreeBSD has at the moment and ISC does not have) and >> integrate atrun into cron like it was done in OpenBSD cron. After that (or >> faster who knows :)) maybe we should have a discussion about this idea. > > Sweet! > > Well, hm. How should we do it? Can we run both cron's in the same > source tree and just pick which to build/install? They're both > different crons, right? Or is there a common ancestor that makes the > diff not so terrible? The /etc/rc.d/cron already allows for command_path specification. So als long as the 2 versions have different nameing, selection is easy. -_WjW
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