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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 12:45:24 -0500
From: Jordan Christiansen <xordspar0@gmail.com>
Subject: Origin of /etc/periodic in Alpine
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Does anyone know the history of /etc/periodic in Alpine? As far as I 
know, periodic was invented by FreeBSD[1], and I haven't found any 
other systems that support it, not even other BSDs. I think the 
implementation of periodic in Alpine[2] is very simple and elegant. 
FreeBSD's implementation may have a couple extra features, but it's 
also a standalone program with an associated config file. In Alpine, 5 
lines in the default crontab are enough to give us 95% of the features.

Whose idea was this? Does any other Linux distro support periodic?

[1]: 
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=periodic&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE+and+Ports
[2]: 
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/master/main/alpine-baselayout/crontab