On 01/03/2010 08:52 PM, Paul Mattal wrote:
Do others have specific experiences with bcron to relate? I know some folks like Dan and Thomas have chosen fcron, and maybe for good reason other than just features; if you have war stories, please share.
Several other relevant items have come to my attention, so I'm sharing: 1. fcron supports /etc/cron.d via a script which collects those entries into its own format. The script is out-of-date enough to recommend using dnotify to run it, but perhaps it would be efficient enough otherwise-employed. 2. Jim Pryor has forked dcron 3.2 as yacron. This is a new option: yacron http://repo.or.cz/w/yacron.git ----- advantages: * little work (fork of existing dcron) * simple, small, mature * familiar/standard crontab format (even more like vixie) * supports /etc/cron.d * logs to syslog disadvantages: * not widely tested I'd really feel more comfortable pushing this if it were more tested, but that's a catch-22, I guess. Jim states he's willing to support and update yacron in response to feedback and new upstream dcron releases, should they come. 3. dcron apparently does support /etc/cron.d from 3.1 on, so that was inaccurate in my original roundup. (thanks for pointing that out, Jim) - P