On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Chris Turner <c.tur...@199technologies.org> wrote: > Samuel J. Greear wrote: >> >> That said, I think it would be fine to commit one or more optional >> stopgap measures/scripts to the RC system, for mobile users and etc., >> as long as it is well documented that they may go away if a better >> solution is developed or derived. > > not to flamebait or something - but: > > wouldn't the system crontab be a better place? > or perhaps create an /etc/periodic/hourly ? > > the 'newsyslog' is in /etc/crontab which is the only hourly > job I can think of off hand.. > > the script can still of course source rc.conf or something > to configure the job if the job is enabled by default >
Sure, my only real point was that it should be a knob that users have to turn on (not on by default). I do not know what the precedent is for periodic/rc cross-pollination. Sam