Re: sources.redhat.com downtime

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:12:36AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>> I can set the time to GMT on the new system, if everybody agrees that 
>>>>is
>>>>> reasonable.  It seems reasonable to me.
>>
>>>>
>>>>Yes please.  This was discussed before, the consensus then being that a 
>>>>new machine could have this change (just not the old machine).
>>
>>>
>>>Thanks, just note if fixing up crontabs that at least gccadmin's crontab
>>>is CVS-controlled (/cvs/gcc/gcc/maintainer-scripts/) - I don't know about
>>>others, but presume in general that jobs should continue to run at the
>>>same absolute time each day.
>>
>>
>>Is there any reason why I can't leave that to the maintainers of the 
>>individual
>>crontab owners?  I do have all of the crontab entries running, but getting 
>>the
>>times right could be tricky.  You can't just add 8 to the hours, obviously.
>
>None.
>
>In fact I think gcc and gdb's cron should start out disabled.  Relevent 
>admins can re-start them with adjusted timezones once other things have 
>settled.

That is actually what I've done.  The crontab entries are there but they
are commented out.

cgf
(already stressed with a day to go)