On 11/19/2014 07:20 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
A long long time ago[1] the way cron handled system tasks was more visible. The crontab entry for root had multiple lines and each line referred to one script that "did one thing, only one thing and did it well". Those scripts are managed, but the fine tuning we had is lost.
Agreed, its a mess, and getting messier with each release as layers of indirection are piled on and more and more stuff is percolated up into shell arguments and environmentals that are undocumented anywhere. To be fair, Cron was always a bit of a hairbrained scheme of arcane coding syntax, which most people used so infrequently they had to reach for the man page every time they tried to schedule something. Then Kcron came around which was somewhat less obtuse (but only slightly). Now, its a total mystery how system cronjobs are started, or when they are started. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org