Re: cron(8) improvement

From: Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:41:06 -0500
On 2013-11-07 22:39, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:13, Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com> wrote:
>
>> Right. The best way to handle this is likely to have the ports install
>> the example cron to ${PREFIX}/share/portname/ or wherever else they
>> normally put examples, with instructions in the pkg-message on how to
>> enable the cron. The same way that ports that add something to apache
>> don't install to the apache etc/apache22/Includes/ directory, but
>> instead tell you to add the lines to a file there.
> It’s probably better to have the port’s rc.d script verify the crontab is in place, and install it if it’s not.
That might make sense, it really depends on the port and what the cron
is doing.

-- 
Allan Jude



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