CfR: config chapter changes

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 15 22:18:16 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:03:11PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:36:19PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > > 
> > > +	Because of the system crontab, there is usually no need to
> > > +	create a user crontab for <username>root</username>.</para>
> > 
> > "Because of the system crontab" is something I'm not fond of.  I'd
> > prefer "Since the system crontab effectively invokes the specified
> > commands as root..." or something.  Not a nit directly about your patch;
> > I wasn't fond of the original version.
> 
> I'm not crazy about using a time-ordering term ("since") as a synonym for
> a term indicating causality ("because").  How about "Because the system
> crontab effectively invokes . . ." ?
> 

IMHO, it sounds better than the original version.  Thanks.

Glen




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