Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:33:34 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Tim Allshorn <ta_iy@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron pickle Message-ID: <20010917023333.A3916@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010916200714.X968@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:07:14PM -0500 References: <F243F4r4rPKlNonsYKU00010632@hotmail.com> <20010917014932.V43502@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> <20010916200714.X968@elvis.mu.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:07:14PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >=20 > I'm not a date(1) wizard, but there's a possible issue here, if > the system is loaded cron may skip a beat possibly and that > conditional may be delayed such that it doesn't trigger. >=20 > My suggestion would be to use something more sophisticated such as > a file someplace that tracks the last time it was run to make sure > there's no race here. Or something less sophisticated like 12 cron entries, one for each month. Joe --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjulUu0ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBa8gwCgthWVXLM+oh584cNSLgbjDRoi nrUAn3w4aRz+Wcu643QCzd0UbhXW5SyS =wsit -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010917023333.A3916>