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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:28:46 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab
Message-ID:  <20001210052846.E16205@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org>; from des@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0800
References:  <200012101254.eBACsZu99303@freefall.freebsd.org>

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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> [001210 04:54] wrote:
> des         2000/12/10 04:54:35 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  crontab 
>   Log:
>   On Sundays through Fridays, run daily at 03:01 am.
>   On Saturdays, run daily and weekly sequentially, starting at 03:01 am.
>   
>   This prevents daily and weekly from overlapping, while running weekly as
>   early as possible  (i.e. as soon as daily finishes) to give it time to
>   finish before monthly starts at 05:30 am.
>   
>   It's probably possible to do something similar with monthly, making it
>   run as soon as daily (and possibly weekly, if the first of the month
>   is a Saturday) finishes, but this is left as an exercise for the reader.

why not have weekly run daily and monthly run weekly which then
runs daily?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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