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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



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