updating cron and atrun

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <97A66670F59C9C626B5090E3 at triton.njm.me.uk>, "N.J. Mann" writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Saturday, February 08, 2020 19:30:31 +0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for looking into this.
>> 
>> Is at(1) something people actually use these days, or should it be
>> disabled by default ?
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>I do.  I use it to run various homebrew scripts in response to external
>events.  I needed a delay (sometime minutes, sometimes hours) between
>the event and the response and at(1) was a perfect fit.

Right, it is absolutely useful to have, if you need it, and it should
not be removed.

But if, as I suspect, the vast majority of FreeBSD pointlessly add 
288 lines to /var/log/cron every day, without anybody ever using the at(1)
command, maybe we should disable it to save power and disk-wear ?

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