From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 1 23:59:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7867437B873; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.2) with SMTP id SAA27959; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:48:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:48:46 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! In-Reply-To: <20001101120230.A43030@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:06:39PM -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. > > Does 03:10 work for everyone? That would work in Australia. Got caught again with our 2.2 system just last Sunday, which jumped from 2 to 3am, skipping the run of /etc/daily. Unlike the US which goes 2->3am in spring and 2->1am in fall, as someone said it went, here we go 2->3am in spring but 3->2am in autumn :-) I'd be as happy with more like 5:05am though. There'll always be some place where people will have to move daily elsewhere, but that should suit most - and as someone else pointed out, many of us are nightowls .. Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message