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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:10:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/45493: Confusing comment in /etc/crontab 
Message-ID:  <200211211410.gALEA2Z3057439@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/45493; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: misc/45493: Confusing comment in /etc/crontab 
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:04:59 -0800

 > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:42:56 +0000
 > From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
 > 
 > I'd appreciate your feedback on this patch which fixes the ambiguous
 > adjkerntz(8) statement in /etc/crontab and generally tidies up the
 > grammar used in comments.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Tom
 
 I'd suggest one extremely minor change. If you can't spot it, I
 hyphenated te word "re-seed".
 
 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
 Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
 Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
 E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
 
 Index: crontab
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/crontab,v
 retrieving revision 1.31
 diff -u -r1.31 crontab
 --- crontab	19 Feb 2001 02:47:41 -0000	1.31
 +++ crontab	21 Nov 2002 14:03:42 -0000
 @@ -10,18 +10,17 @@
  #
  */5	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/libexec/atrun
  #
 -# save some entropy so that /dev/random can reseed on boot
 +# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
  */11	*	*	*	*	operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
  #
 -# rotate log files every hour, if necessary
 +# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
  0	*	*	*	*	root	newsyslog
  #
 -# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
 +# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
  1	3	*	*	*	root	periodic daily
  15	4	*	*	6	root	periodic weekly
  30	5	1	*	*	root	periodic monthly
  #
 -# time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock,
 -# does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock.
 -# See adjkerntz(8) for details.
 +# Timezone adjustment for wall CMOS clock.  Does nothing for UTC CMOS
 +# clock.  See adjkerntz(8) for details.
  1,31	0-5	*	*	*	root	adjkerntz -a
 

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