From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 16:47:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA23917 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:47:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.ic.dk (qmailr@mail.ic.dk [194.255.107.174] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA23898 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacob@jblhome.ping.dk) Received: (qmail 11938 invoked from network); 2 Jan 1998 00:35:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ic1.ic.dk) (192.168.65.12) by 192.168.65.14 with SMTP; 2 Jan 1998 00:35:48 -0000 Received: from jblhome by ic1.ic.dk with UUCP id AA18621 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j); Fri, 2 Jan 1998 01:45:11 +0100 Received: (from jacob@localhost) by pippin.jblhome.ping.dk (8.8.8/8.7.3) id BAA22359; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 01:13:54 +0100 (CET) To: Brian Somers Cc: Duncan Barclay , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Revamping /etc/daily, weekly, monthly References: <199801011220.MAA17567@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> From: Jacob Bohn Lorensen Date: 02 Jan 1998 01:13:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: Brian Somers's message of Thu, 01 Jan 1998 12:20:37 +0000 Message-Id: <871zyru400.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 X-Charset: ISO_8859-1 X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Brian Somers writes: > > Brian Somers writes: > > > [.....] > > > > # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance > > > > 0 2 * * * once periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root > > > > 30 3 * * 6 once periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root > > > > 30 5 1 * * once periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root > > > [.....] > > > I like the idea, but the syntax is bad. It looks way too much like > > > /etc/crontab - except with different meanings. > > I don't think I made myself clear. > You did :^P > I agree with your ideas, but what I'm saying is that /etc/crontab (as > distinct from /var/cron/tabs/* has an extra 6th field - `who'. This I had forgotten all about /etc/crontab (hmmm - what's it for? I don't think my /usr/bin/crontab understands the ``who'' column....? > looks very like your `once' field and would be rather confusing for > someone comparing the two file formats. Then there should be a 7th field in /etc/crontab (corresponding to the 6th field in /var/cron/tabs/*). -- Jacob Lorensen; Mosebuen 33, 1.; DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark; +45-31560401 PGP ID = E596F0B5; PGP Fingerprint = 1E8726467436DC4A 723B6678C5AD9E71