Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:58:24 -0500 (EST) From: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> To: Yaroslav Halchinsky <jar@ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011011555570.14134-100000@lcl12.cvzoom.net> In-Reply-To: <20001101205246.E83DD2FA0C@relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Yaroslav Halchinsky wrote: > Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> wrote: > > There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed. That is the > > time that cron runs the daily scripts. The current setting in > > /etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning. Well, last Sunday that time > > occurred twice as we switched from daylight to standard time. The > > times between 1am and 3am should be avoided for any system cron jobs > > just because of this problem. Yep, happened here as well. I live in PA. > > Could the default nightly cron job time get changed to something > > outside of the 1am to 3am window? The current time is just a bad > > default. > Here we changed from daylight time at 4:00am. So? I think this whole "2 A.M." thing should be later in the moring as well. I think Slackware runs a similar daily cron job at something like 4:40 AM or thereabouts. I think we should have the 2AM thing moved to 4:01 AM, because a lot of people are still up and working at their computers at 2 AM. It's very inconvenient. (Man, I HATE that daily thing!) - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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