Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 03:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/20498: All FreeBSD systems trigger massive late-night activity at the same times Message-ID: <200008101050.DAA92390@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/20498; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: brian@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/20498: All FreeBSD systems trigger massive late-night activity at the same times Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:42:55 +0200 (CEST) On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 brian@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > I don't believe it's appropriate to do this in periodic.conf. It > should be done in the crontab file to remove the fact that a > reboot between 2:00 and the actual start time would abort the > daily run. Good point. This seems to be a general problem (not just for periodic) and crontab would have the same difficulty, or? Timestamp files (eewww) would theoreticaly be a solution, but doesn't appeal to me practicaly. Not that I am for this feature as part of FreeBSD anyway... (just someone who reads -bugs, I'll crawl back into -questions now :) -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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