cron(8) improvement

From: Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:31:12 -0500
This came up in discussion on IRC and I thought I should throw it at the
list so I don't forget.

A user was asking how to do what linux cron does, where there is a
directory /etc/cron.d/ that packages and add files to to create crontabs.

Making FreeBSD's cron (Vixie Cron) include /etc/cron.d/ and
/usr/local/etc/cron.d/ in the /etc/crontab format seems like a very
useful feature, especially for pkg(8) as it makes it easy and safe to
programatically add and remove crontabs as part of a package.


-- 
Allan Jude


Received on Tue Nov 05 2013 - 16:31:13 UTC

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