Justin B Rye wrote:
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote (CCing d-l-e):translating the package description I wondered whether the last paragraph could be improved. I'm afraid that it is not just the last paragraphThis one's been through debian-l10n-english a couple of times before, so I was already happy with it. That doesn't mean it can't still be improved, though...
I wasn't aware of this.
Description: process scheduling daemon The cron daemon is a background process that runs particular programs at particular times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month), as specified in a crontab. By default, users may also create crontabs of their own so that processes are run on their behalf. . Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator (or to the user in question); you should probably install a mail system as well so that you can receive these messages. . This cron package is configured by default to do some basic daily system maintenance tasks. Other packages, such as checksecurity, can provide further maintenance tasks. I'm afraid a newbie does not know what a crontab is. So it should be explained or skipped.
Actually, my main concern was "Other packages ... can provide" - I'd rather s/can//.
The strategy it's currently going for is to try to arrange things so
that they can work it out for themselves. This might work better if
we made it clearer that "crontab" is the name of the kind of file
that's used for specifying the tasks that get run:
as specified in a "crontab" file.
Would it be a good idea to mention the manpage section: crontab(5)?
I would appreciate considering my suggestion: Description: process scheduling daemon The cron daemon runs programs at scheduled times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month). By default, users may also specify processes to be run on their behalf. . Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator (or to the user in question). You should install a mail system as well in order to receive these messages.I would keep the "probably" (as it's only a "Recommends"), but otherwise this phrasing seems a little better. After all, as it's just said, the mail recipient isn't necessarily the sysadmin.
As the mail system is only recommended the output can also be written into some log file for later reference?