On 08.04.2011 00:15, Kaiting Chen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Why do you need vixie cron syntax? Can't you migrate once to a new syntax? Btw., most of fcron's syntax is the same as the syntax of every cron daemon. You can easily take your previous crontabs. You probably have only to do some changes which could most likely be done by sed.
In first place you need stability, reliability and useful features. And this is given by fcron. And don't tell me anything about compatibility. I would consider this argument if fcron was a new cron daemon and if it was totally incompatible.
Fcron is known since years and it's known to be stable and reliable, while cronie seems to be pretty new. There are absolutely no informations about cronie's features, no documentations, no feature comparisons to other cron daemons, etc. on upstream's website. And it's still in AUR and has only 3 votes there.
The thing is that cronie is forked from vixie-cron which is much older than fcron. And I would venture to say that vixie-cron or some derivative is the default crond for the vast majority of distributions out there. --Kaiting.
cronie also appears to be the nicest migration choice for users who are not used to fcron. It seems to support anachron features, cron.d, daily/weekly/etc, is able to actually keep time and works just like expected whereas fcron has fcrontab with a slightly different syntax. We could actually make cronie replace dcron. fcron would be nice but it is not a drop in like cronie. What do you say? If you agree, I shall make (or somebody who steps up) a plan to the replacement and that's that. -- Sven-Hendrik