Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:03:41 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab @reboot directive Message-ID: <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080422205618.GA76601@ozzmosis.com> References: <36b22dcf9403783aa82cb84ac8a886aa@localhost> <20080422111826.GA26749@ozzmosis.com> <20080422163456.285ad902@scorpio> <20080422205618.GA76601@ozzmosis.com>
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andrew clarke writes: > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file? > > Since I have root access on that machine, yes I could do that. But > for my particular setup I couldn't see any advantage. Plus, the less > I need to edit system-wide config files, the better, I think. I'm confused: how is /etc/rc.conf any more a "system-wide config file" than /etc/crontab? Robert Huff
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