Re: cron(8) improvement

On 11/05/13 12:31, Allan Jude wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Shouldn't we encourage packages to use periodic(8) when possible?

- Nikolai Lifanov