updating cron and atrun

Simon J. Gerraty sjg at juniper.net
Mon Feb 10 21:38:11 UTC 2020


Josh Aas <josh at kflag.net> wrote:
> FreeBSD. I'm curious to hear if there are actual technical reasons
> that it's worthwhile for FreeBSD to do it.

Reduce the friction of people moving from other systems to FreeBSD?

> considering. In an earlier email you said "People generally have no
> idea what they do and people are unwilling to chance using them or
> learning something new..." That doesn't sound like a description of
> "basic functionality" that necessarily needs to be a part of a base
> operating system.

The whole argument about what the masses grok would lead everyone to
adopt Windows.

I've used at(1) extensively in the past, I consider it basic
functionality.



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