CfR: config chapter changes

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Wed Feb 15 21:34:49 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:03:11PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:36:19PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > 
> > +	Because of the system crontab, there is usually no need to
> > +	create a user crontab for <username>root</username>.</para>
> 
> "Because of the system crontab" is something I'm not fond of.  I'd
> prefer "Since the system crontab effectively invokes the specified
> commands as root..." or something.  Not a nit directly about your patch;
> I wasn't fond of the original version.

I'm not crazy about using a time-ordering term ("since") as a synonym for
a term indicating causality ("because").  How about "Because the system
crontab effectively invokes . . ." ?

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