Re: Announcing bcron version 0.08
Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:24:03PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > > Hmm, the bcron-update service still bugs me somehow. It could be > > replaced with a magic file in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ for example, so > > saving one service, having the system crontabs updated through a program > > run by bcron-exec. > > You know, that even makes sense. I'm not sure why I didn't do it that > way myself. bcron-update already updates the sched through the trigger, > so changes are scheduled in the next minute after the update. One problem with this is that, in order to determine what files are new, bcron-update will have to open and read all the directories involved, which will cause atime updates every minute. This is a pain for systems such as laptops, which will want to spin down their hard drives. I can, however, add a "one-shot" flag to -update so that it can be used both ways if this is still desirable. -- Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8
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