On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, at 09:12, Jeffrey Bouquet via freebsd-ports wrote: > Compounding the problem: > The machine here is usually not running during the nightly pkg backup. >
You've described a key reason* launchd was created in OSX and why people want it imported into FreeBSD. It offers a plethora of features including the ability to intelligently decide when to run background jobs -- especially based on system activity and availability. You can't reliably do this with cron jobs; they're too simplistic. I don't know if launchd in base will ever happen, but if it does it would be great to integrate pkg. * This is described in greater detail in the following BAFUG talk: http://www.nextbsd.org/jordan-hubbard-visits-bafug/ -- Mark Felder ports-secteam member f...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
