Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:37:29 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: crontab changes for PR bin/22612; please comment Message-ID: <20020322153729.C41186@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101525b8c10898deca@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:16:15AM -0500 References: <20020318130904.A3869@schweikhardt.net> <p05101502b8bc01b04024@[128.113.24.47]> <20020320192624.A1258@schweikhardt.net> <p0510151fb8be8b748a93@[128.113.24.47]> <20020320210458.A13393@uriah.heep.sax.de> <p05101525b8c10898deca@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:16:15AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 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.
You can borrow the MD5-check code from src/usr.bin/chpass/edit.c.
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