Am Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:41:13 +0200 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>:
We all know the situation with dcron (it can't keep time properly) and it still is broken. No fix (or any changes for that matter) have gone into its upstream git for over a year now. There have been multiple yeah-I'll-take-a-looks from various people as well as its upstream maintainer and no work was done.
I certainly don't want to offend anybody but I think it is time another crond was made quasi default by swapping it for dcron in base group. I know that users can do that themselves but the we shouldn't suggest packages we know are broken by putting them into the base group. Perhaps fcron is a fine choice.
Bug report for reference: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18681
I always voted for fcron in these discussions. It has cron and anacron features combined and can be used for every use case as far as I know. And it just works. In my opinion fcron is the best choice and making it the default cron daemon is long overdue. Heiko