Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
* Replacing cron with fcron
This was brought up on the ML a bit ago. It appears that most of us are in favor of using fcron to replace our existing dcron. I would like someone to spearhead this move. Any volunteers?
I'm starting to lean towards vixie-cron as fcron still does not support /etc/cron.d. Why are we switching otherwise? Are there other issues with dcron?
Well, dcron seems to have a handful of minor issues and it's really just kind of... blah. Most of the time we try to walk the line between "vanilla" and "modern". dcron just feels.... old. And, based on the bug reports, it seems most other devs like fcron.
I mailed the fcron maintainer and he DOES still maintain it, but considers it feature complete, so does no active development.
Regarding cron.d, it can be emulated with a script that merges cron.d files into a system crontab. We could potentially include this in the rc.d script. http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/faq.html#AEN2949
That sounds a reasonable solution to the /etc/cron.d issue. So... who is tackling this? There is a fcron package in [community] that will serve as a great starting point. Allan