Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:02:43 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cron @shutdown Message-ID: <20220802150243.242AF580@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo9JZzH8GkA%2Bd1ddi6cATfbN1e0%2B5_j3ALDpmgT63EYDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20220802145433.E2DB351D@slippy.cwsent.com> <CANCZdfo9JZzH8GkA%2Bd1ddi6cATfbN1e0%2B5_j3ALDpmgT63EYDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CANCZdfo9JZzH8GkA+d1ddi6cATfbN1e0+5_j3ALDpmgT63EYDQ@mail.gmail.c om> , Warner Losh writes: > --000000000000543e5405e5435396 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2022, 8:54 AM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone think there might be some utility with an @shutdown crontab(5) > > "nickname" similar to @reboot but instead when cron shuts down? > > > > I pointed out to one of my customers that @reboot might be an option > > instead of an rc script (or in his case a systemd unit file). Not that an > > @reboot for FreeBSD cron would contribute to solving his Linux problem but > > might our users be interested in something like this? > > > > > If it's simple and increases portability, I'm all for it. It's simple but there's no Linux equivalent, yet. My thoughts are to implement in FreeBSD then canvas then submit a pull request to the Linux Vixie Cron maintainer and discuss with the various Linux vendors. It's a simple thing to do that empowers end-users who wish to run services on their machines without startup scripts and superuser privileges needed to maintain them -- like at $JOB where privilege separation is somewhat of a religion. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org e**(i*pi)+1=0
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