Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:08:06 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup Message-ID: <4ED011C6.8060605@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201111251609.pAPG97dT008848@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <201111251609.pAPG97dT008848@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On 11/25/2011 08:09, Cy Schubert wrote: > You're right. Sorry. It was late, after a long night of O/T. Actually I was in the same boat, which is why my reply was even grumpier than usual, sorry. Meanwhile I like your suggestion of having cron check that it's within $time_period before running the @reboot jobs. I'm not quite so sure that the current behavior needs to be preserved though ... I doubt people purposely restart cron often enough to be anything but surprised by the current behavior. Doug -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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