Re: cron(8) improvement

From: Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:51:59 -0500
On 2013-11-07 23:48, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2013, at 19:46, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't like the idea of having untracked files installed by the rc(8)
>> script. Why not install the cron.d snippet by default but leave
>> everything in it commented out with instructions at the beginning to
>> uncomment the contents to enable it?
> It’s un-necessarily complicated.  The package manifest can specify both locations for the crontab file.  If the copy isn’t made, at package removal the worst that will happen is a warning diagnostic will be printed about the missing file.
>
> —lyndon
>
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My use case is puppet etc, not ports/packages, so I'll leave the policy
about packages up to portsmgr_at_, I just want a less sloppy way to manage
crontabs with my orchestration system (and feature parity with Linux)

-- 
Allan Jude



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