Re: cron(8) improvement

On 2013-11-10 09:04, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 11/09/13 21:23, Allan Jude wrote:
>> On 2013-11-09 21:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> On 9 November 2013 17:58, Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, if the rc.conf config is specific to the daemon being
>>>> installed by
>>>> the package, then the existing /etc/rc.conf.d/ system works fine, it
>>>> just falls down a little on xorg configuring hald, unless you just
>>>> make
>>>> the xorg package create /etc/rc.conf.d/hald and /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus
>>> If I install hal/dbus, why wouldn't they themselves populate
>>> /etc/rc.conf.d/hald and /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus ?
>>>
>>> If there are hal/dbus options that need configuring by other packages,
>>> then sure, you'll need to add some other things too.
>> ahh, right, why didn't I think of that
>>
>>>> I like the simplicity of rc.conf, and I would much rather not
>>>> involve an
>>>> sqlite database, I am not sure how that could possibly be faster then
>>>> sourcing an extra shell script.
>>> Don't focus on that. The sqlite example is just that - an example -
>>> showing what kind of operations you would want to implement to _allow_
>>> you to do that. I'm not advocating for doing it in freebsd-base.
>>>
>>> The point I'm making is this:
>>>
>>> * when populating rc.conf.d/, don't just do 'cp' in a post-install
>>> script
>>> * when populating the cron daemon entries in rc.cron.d, don't just
>>> 'cp' in a post-install script.
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>
>> If the cron daemon is just scanning /etc/cron.d/* and treating it as if
>> those lines had been appended to /etc/crontab I don't see why you
>> couldn't just cp in the post-install. I think it would be better if you
>> didn't have to 'register' a change.
>>
>>
>
> For this whole thread, please s,/etc/rc.d,/usr/local/etc/rc.d,g
> -- George
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We have never once mentioned /etc/rc.d

rc.conf.d is an entirely different system (extending rc.conf)

and I proposed both /etc/cron.d/ (stuff you'd normally add to
/etc/crontab) and /usr/local/etc/cron.d/ (packages)

-- 
Allan Jude