On Tue, Nov 5, 2013, at 11:37, Nikolai Lifanov wrote: > On 11/05/13 12:31, Allan Jude wrote: > > This came up in discussion on IRC and I thought I should throw it at the > > list so I don't forget. > > > > A user was asking how to do what linux cron does, where there is a > > directory /etc/cron.d/ that packages and add files to to create crontabs. > > > > Making FreeBSD's cron (Vixie Cron) include /etc/cron.d/ and > > /usr/local/etc/cron.d/ in the /etc/crontab format seems like a very > > useful feature, especially for pkg(8) as it makes it easy and safe to > > programatically add and remove crontabs as part of a package. > > > > > > Shouldn't we encourage packages to use periodic(8) when possible? >
Yes but our default periodic configuration in /etc/crontab is only configured to be as granular as daily. If this is something that should run hourly or at very strange intervals then cron is a better choice. If the application is installing its own user they could install their own crontab file in /var/cron/tabs. I'm certain I've seen a couple ports do this. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
