[csw-maintainers] cswcrontab action script vs the percent sign

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> The cswcrontab CAS uses percent as if it was a comment.  However, the
> percent is not a comment; the way cron works is it pipes everything
> after the percent into the command being run.
>
> More information: http://www.hcidata.info/crontab.htm
>
> I think we need to mark the cswcrontab entries by a magic comment
> above the crontab line.
>
> Thoughts?
>

maybe the action needs to be reengineered entirely, to not depend on
comments like this at all.

Sun does have a few packages that tweak cron. I dont know how it
handles it, off-hand, but maybe we should emulate that more.