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In firewall_aliases_edit.php on line 503, find:

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update Freq.");

and change it to:

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update days");

"days" are the units in a dropdown menu, from 1 to 128 days. I learned the units were days from Bug #2685: Unnecessary fields in firewall aliases edit page. Replacing "Freq." with "days" puts units on the values in the dropdown, and its 1 character shorter! It's also translatable, searchable, etc. "Freq" and similar abbreviations are unnecessary, and as useless and annoying as abbreviating "abbreviation" with "abbr", as found in some paper dictionaries. If you want to make these form fields luxurious, I suggest changing line 503 to one of the following:

$update_freq_str = gettext("Days to update");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update in days");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Fetch every (days)");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update every (days)");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update time in days");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update time (days)");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update frequency in days");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update frequency (days)");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update interval in days");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update interval (days)");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update schedule in days");

$update_freq_str = gettext("Update schedule (days)");

Of course, a better solution would be to not have a huge list of day numbers from 1 to 128, and instead have a more flexible and standard FreeBSD crontab format with the following fields:

minutes hours day-of-the-month month day-of-the-week

Described here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-cron.html

Then, virtually anyone's needs can be served. I like having simple fields for people who don't want to read documentation about how to interpret crontab fields, so having a basic setting dialog with only minutes, hours, and days ought to be sufficient for most people. I think I would prefer that being implemented first.

Does anyone choose a number of 128 days? I'd bet my left arm that no one has ever needed exactly 128 days to update their alias URL table. Anyone who needs to update such information is likely to prefer that it gets updated as frequently as possible. In that case, a maximum frequency of 1 day could be unsatisfactory for nearly everyone. For myself, I would like an update frequency of 1 to 15 minutes.