ports/142275: [patch] sysutils/anacron should have better configuration hints

[Kenyon Ralph]

>Number:         142275
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [patch] sysutils/anacron should have better configuration hints
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 03 20:50:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kenyon Ralph
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD gauss.kenyonralph.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0 r200959: Thu Dec 24 12:30:25 PST 2009 root at gauss.kenyonralph.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
Anacron's pkg-message configuration hints should mention that anacron should be run periodically, not just at boot time. If it's not run periodically, then a system which is up for several days without rebooting will not have its anacron jobs run at all.
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
--- /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron/files/pkg-message.in	2005-06-16 08:51:38.000000000 -0700
+++ pkg-message.in	2010-01-03 12:25:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -3,5 +3,7 @@
 - Edit %%PREFIX%%/etc/anacrontab
 - Deactivate the 'periodic' commands in /etc/crontab
 - Add anacron_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf
+- Add a daily invocation of anacron to /etc/crontab such as this:
+  30 10 * * * root /usr/local/etc/rc.d/anacron start > /dev/null
 - Read anacron(8) and anacrontab(5)
 
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