Re: cron @shutdown

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, Warner Losh writes:
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> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022, 8:54 AM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > Does anyone think there might be some utility with an @shutdown crontab(5)
> > "nickname" similar to @reboot but instead when cron shuts down?
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> > I pointed out to one of my customers that @reboot might be an option
> > instead of an rc script (or in his case a systemd unit file). Not that an
> > @reboot for FreeBSD cron would contribute to solving his Linux problem but
> > might our users be interested in something like this?
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> If it's simple and increases portability, I'm all for it.

It's simple but there's no Linux equivalent, yet. My thoughts are to 
implement in FreeBSD then canvas then submit a pull request to the Linux 
Vixie Cron maintainer and discuss with the various Linux vendors.

It's a simple thing to do that empowers end-users who wish to run services 
on their machines without startup scripts and superuser privileges needed 
to maintain them -- like at $JOB where privilege separation is somewhat of 
a religion.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
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