On 10 Nov 2013, at 24:24, Matthew Seaman <matt...@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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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