Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/crontab Message-ID: <199802212044.MAA01155@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980221221904.776o@panda.hilink.com.au> from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Feb 21, 98 10:22:51 pm"
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Daniel O'Callaghan writes: > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Since people are discussing what they want to see in 2.2.6, > > I decided to repeat my old posting since it went unnoticed > > (there were neither positive nor negative response to it) > > > > /etc/crontab: > > > > # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance > > 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root > > > > This script will not work once a year, and twice a day on another day, > > This is a bug in cron(8), not in crontab(5) or /etc/daily. There is a > rumour that someone has patches to cron which will correct this; would > that person please make him/herself known so the patches can be reviewed > and committed. Whether this is a bug or not is arguable... cron(8) is doing exactly what you told it to do. Why not just change the "2" in /etc/crontab to a "3" ? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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