Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

["Samuel J. Greear" <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Chris Turner
<c.turner@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