requests, default to the previous 60-seconds scheduling method
unless there is any @every_second entries to conserve CPU cycles and
power.
This change also improves scheduling in the default mode by running
as close to the beginning of the minnute as possible by replacing
sleep(3) with nanosleep(2). Previously, the tasks would run anywhere
within the first second of the minute and that offset drifted back
and forth each time cron(8) was engaged.
MFC after: 1 month
only available via the new @every_second shortcut. ENOTIME to
implement crontab(5) format extensions to allow more flexible
scheduling.
In order to address some concerns expressed by Terry Lambert
while discussing the topic few years ago, about per-second cron
possibly causing some bad effects on /etc/crontab by stat()ing
it every second instead of every minute now (i.e. atime update),
only check that database needs to be reloaded on every 60-th
loop run. This should be close enough to the current behaviour.
Add "@every_minute" shortcut while I am here.
MFC after: 1 month
DST should not need to worry about scheduling jobs when the DST time
changes.
Rather than removing the BUGS section in crontab(5) regarding this,
note that disabling '-s' may still cause jobs to be executed twice or
not at all.
PR: 166318
Submitted by: Florian k Unglaub (f.unglaub%googlemail!com)
MFC After: 1 week
* Clarify quoting value in of name = value pairs.
* Describe the @reboot, @yearly, @annually, @monthly, @weekly,
@daily, @midnight and @hourly extensions.
PR: 17261
Submitted by: MIHIRA Yoshiro <sanpei@sanpei.org>
Obtained from: NetBSD
Savings Time on cron(8). If we ever introduce some work-around code for
handling jobs scheduled for a time that "doesn't happen" due to DST,
the section should be renamed to IMPLEMENTATION NOTES.
PR: 10947
Reported by: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
Submitted by: Seth Bromberger <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>
Reviewed by: mpp
Use getpwnam before getpwuid since two users with same uids can exists
(affects new login classes code only)
The same fixes as in inetd: by default run `system crontab things' with
daemon login class now, not restrict them to user class breaking
compatibility with old way (so-called nobody limits problem)
Implement user[:group][/login-class] syntax in system crontab
for more flexible control (the same as in inetd)
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
