From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Mar 22 8:16:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192E737B41E for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:16:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2MGGG9e095922; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:16:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020320210458.A13393@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20020318130904.A3869@schweikhardt.net> <20020320192624.A1258@schweikhardt.net> <20020320210458.A13393@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:16:15 -0500 To: Joerg Wunsch From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: crontab changes for PR bin/22612; please comment Cc: Jens Schweikhardt , freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:04 PM +0100 3/20/02, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >As Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> You type :q! >> and you then see the message "installing new crontab". >> You then think -- "Oh no! What just happened?!?" > >In which case it would reinstall the old crontab only >anyway :), but I agree, it would startle me, too. > >How about md5-checking the files? Well, if it were me I would probably go with the lazy fix and add the 1-second sleep. However, it probably would be even "nicer to the user" to do an md5-check. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message