Subject: Re: Implementing periodic.d
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/12/2004 13:46:11
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On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> Looking at misc/14825, found a minor discussion about creating=20
> /etc/periodic.d, which is very interesting. Some of the people who=20
> replied to it said that they were working on implementing this, but the
> last message in the PR is dated as 2002, so it seems nobody finished it,
> right? ;)
I've been following this thread off & on.
We already have cron which runs things at given times. Why do we need a=20
different infrastructure?
Take care,
Bill
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