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Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:16:15 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crontab changes for PR bin/22612; please comment
Message-ID:  <p05101525b8c10898deca@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020320210458.A13393@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <20020318130904.A3869@schweikhardt.net> <p05101502b8bc01b04024@[128.113.24.47]> <20020320192624.A1258@schweikhardt.net> <p0510151fb8be8b748a93@[128.113.24.47]> <20020320210458.A13393@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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At 9:04 PM +0100 3/20/02, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>As Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  You type  :q!
>>  and you then see the message "installing new crontab".
>>  You then think -- "Oh no!  What just happened?!?"
>
>In which case it would reinstall the old crontab only
>anyway :), but I agree, it would startle me, too.
>
>How about md5-checking the files?

Well, if it were me I would probably go with the lazy
fix and add the 1-second sleep.  However, it probably
would be even "nicer to the user" to do an md5-check.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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