cron(8) improvement

[Allan Jude]

On 2013-11-09 21:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 9 November 2013 17:58, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, if the rc.conf config is specific to the daemon being installed by
>> the package, then the existing /etc/rc.conf.d/ system works fine, it
>> just falls down a little on xorg configuring hald, unless you just make
>> the xorg package create /etc/rc.conf.d/hald and /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus
> If I install hal/dbus, why wouldn't they themselves populate
> /etc/rc.conf.d/hald and /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus ?
>
> If there are hal/dbus options that need configuring by other packages,
> then sure, you'll need to add some other things too.
ahh, right, why didn't I think of that

>> I like the simplicity of rc.conf, and I would much rather not involve an
>> sqlite database, I am not sure how that could possibly be faster then
>> sourcing an extra shell script.
> Don't focus on that. The sqlite example is just that - an example -
> showing what kind of operations you would want to implement to _allow_
> you to do that. I'm not advocating for doing it in freebsd-base.
>
> The point I'm making is this:
>
> * when populating rc.conf.d/, don't just do 'cp' in a post-install script
> * when populating the cron daemon entries in rc.cron.d, don't just
> 'cp' in a post-install script.
>
>
> -adrian

If the cron daemon is just scanning /etc/cron.d/* and treating it as if
those lines had been appended to /etc/crontab I don't see why you
couldn't just cp in the post-install. I think it would be better if you
didn't have to 'register' a change.


-- 
Allan Jude


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