CfR: config chapter changes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 15 22:18:16 UTC 2012
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:03:11PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:36:19PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > >
> > > + Because of the system crontab, there is usually no need to
> > > + create a user crontab for <username>root</username>.</para>
> >
> > "Because of the system crontab" is something I'm not fond of. I'd
> > prefer "Since the system crontab effectively invokes the specified
> > commands as root..." or something. Not a nit directly about your patch;
> > I wasn't fond of the original version.
>
> I'm not crazy about using a time-ordering term ("since") as a synonym for
> a term indicating causality ("because"). How about "Because the system
> crontab effectively invokes . . ." ?
>
IMHO, it sounds better than the original version. Thanks.
Glen
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