Re: cron(8) improvement

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 10:35:16 +1030 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:44 UTC

On 10 Nov 2013, at 24:24, Matthew Seaman <matthew_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>   2) Should ports / packages populate these cron.d directories?
> 
>       This is a much more interesting question.  Effectively its asking
>       if a port / package should provide some level of automatic
>       configuration -- a thing that has previously been a no-no for
>       FreeBSD.

I think it would be OK if they installed entries in a disabled state.

ie either the file is named such that it is ignored by cron (preferable IMO) or the entries in them are commented out.

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