Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:54:49 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <4.3.2.20001101145142.00ad3a00@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <14848.23471.506477.393246@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <18378.973024879@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <18378.973024879@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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At 01:06 PM 11/1/00 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: >There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed. That is the >time that cron runs the daily scripts. The current setting in >/etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning. Well, last Sunday that time >occurred twice as we switched from daylight to standard time. The >times between 1am and 3am should be avoided for any system cron jobs >just because of this problem. > >Could the default nightly cron job time get changed to something >outside of the 1am to 3am window? The current time is just a bad >default. Here too, but only for 4.x systems. No problem with 3.x and 2.2.x systems. Vaguely recall a discussion about how this was worked around without changing the run times. A broken feature in 4.x possibly? Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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