Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:22:59 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: Benedikt Stockebrand <bs_13969_50203@adimus.de> Cc: Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>, "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <19990106002259.B6168@clear.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <sa7ogoengl3.fsf@adimus.de>; from Benedikt Stockebrand on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:45:28AM %2B0100 References: <199901032313.SAA04829@istari.home.net> <368FFD42.F849603C@bulinfo.net> <sa7ogoengl3.fsf@adimus.de>
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On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:45:28AM +0100, Benedikt Stockebrand wrote: > Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> writes: > > > /etc/crontab duplicates the role of the user crontabs, but anyway I > > think it's more > > convenient to have all the necessary system crontab entries in one file. > > Aside from that it's a Good Thing[TM] to keep all configuration files > in /etc --- putting them in /var will bite you as soon as you have to > recover from a disk crash and find out you've never bothered to dump > /var (including assorted spools and log files). And /var has a way > stronger tendency to get messed up on a system crash than / has. If you've lost /var, isn't it probably a good thing that cron isn't running? You probably have more important things to worry about :) Turning your argument around, if it _is_ desirable to have crontabs available with a minimal number of filesystems mounted, why not move /var/cron to /etc/cron and dispense with /etc/crontab? It's not as if crontabs are so variably-sized to really merit living in /var. We seem to have taken the same approach with /etc/namedb, which I have seen more often located in /var/named... But maybe that's just me. I don't know the history of this one. Just an idea anyway :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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