[arch-dev-public] Replacing dcron
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Wed Sep 23 00:04:22 EDT 2009
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>>> Another suggestion was vixie-cron - personally I have been using
>>> fcron on
>>> LFS since 2001 or 2002 and later on Arch, and have been happy with
>>> it all
>>> those 8 or 9 years. Whatever we do by default, I will keep on using
>>> fcron.
>>
>> It sounds like you're a little hesitant about this. What are our
>> options here? fcron, bcron, vixie-cron?
>
> I wasn't planning on sounding hesitant. I only know fcron and never
> used vixie or bcron. fcron is very small, fcrontabs are compatible
> with traditional crontabs, but have an optional extended syntax that
> supports many advanced features. Did I mention that it is still pretty
> small?
>
> The only thing that one might worry about is that people might say
> fcron is "unmaintained" - but then I haven't seen a single bug or
> missing feature in the current release, so maybe this apparent lack of
> maintenance is a result from a lack of need for maintenance.
>
All cron's seem to have no releases in recent years... so I doubt that
can be used to choose. So features seem the way to go. For those that
want a fairly good guide to the different crons, check out
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml#doc_chap2
I remember fcron from my LFS days, so I am happy using it. when a
decision is not obvious, select from nostalgia. :P
Allan
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