Re: crontab changes for PR bin/22612; please comment

Garance A Drosihn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.audit
Message-ID <p05101525b8c10898deca@[128.113.24.47]>
At 9:04 PM +0100 3/20/02, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>As Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  You type  :q!
>>  and you then see the message "installing new crontab".
>>  You then think -- "Oh no!  What just happened?!?"
>
>In which case it would reinstall the old crontab only
>anyway :), but I agree, it would startle me, too.
>
>How about md5-checking the files?

Well, if it were me I would probably go with the lazy
fix and add the 1-second sleep.  However, it probably
would be even "nicer to the user" to do an md5-check.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   [email protected]
Senior Systems Programmer           or  [email protected]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  [email protected]

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