Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:02:11 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> To: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Cc: Benedikt Stockebrand <bs_13969_50203@adimus.de>, Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>, "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.02.9901051257380.15192-100000@epistolic.cynic.net> In-Reply-To: <19990106002259.B6168@clear.co.nz>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Joe Abley wrote: > Turning your argument around, if it _is_ desirable to have crontabs available > with a minimal number of filesystems mounted, why not move /var/cron to > /etc/cron and dispense with /etc/crontab? It's not as if crontabs are so > variably-sized to really merit living in /var. In fact, we're about to do that in NetBSD. The log file (previously in /var/cron/log) will be moved to /var/log/cron. The reasoning behind this is that crontabs are one of the few `permanent' pieces of information in /var. If you lose var you lose at jobs, mail, various queued stuff (uucp, printer, etc.), it's true. But if you just drop in /var from the distribution sets, your system should still keep running as it did before in the long run. So moving the cron jobs out means you don't *have* to back up var in the way that you *have* to back up /etc. cjs -- Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> 604 801 5335 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. The most widely ported operating system in the world: http://www.netbsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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