cron(8) improvement
Daniel O'Connor
doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Sun Nov 10 00:14:47 UTC 2013
On 10 Nov 2013, at 24:24, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 2) Should ports / packages populate these cron.d directories?
>
> This is a much more interesting question. Effectively its asking
> if a port / package should provide some level of automatic
> configuration -- a thing that has previously been a no-no for
> FreeBSD.
I think it would be OK if they installed entries in a disabled state.
ie either the file is named such that it is ignored by cron (preferable IMO) or the entries in them are commented out.
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