Artem Naluzhnyy wrote on 20081126: > I have two suggestion for newsyslog(8) and periodic(8) entries in > default /etc/crontab file: > * nice(1) newsyslog and periodic entries to shape CPU load spikes; > * lockf(1) them to prevent simultaneous execution. I think a pointer to at least lockf will be welcomed by our users. regards, Hans Lambermont