On 7 Mar 2000, Chris Jones wrote:

> Date: 07 Mar 2000 11:05:48 -0700
> From: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
> Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> 
> > > Basically you've got a script 'periodic' and a directory tree
> > > /etc/periodic/{daily|weekly|monthly} which houses scripts named according
> > > to a standard of {xxx}foo where xxx is an integer that determines the
> > > order in which scripts get executed.
> > 
> > Personally, I really hate the {xxx}foo style of naming things,
> > because it makes stuff a pain to enable and disable. I'd prefer to
> > see a configuration file which says which scripts get run and in
> > what order.
> 
> That's a good point, and one I'd actually be inclined to agree with.
> The {xxx}foo style is very SysV-ish, and (as people here are prone to
> point out) we're not SysV.  (Please, no flames on this; this has been
> hashed and re-hashed in multiple forums before.)
> 

I'm under the same opinion here. {xxx}foo style really doesnt fit with the
rest of the layout fwiw. I'd much rather just have a .conf file i could
change the order in.

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