[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

Simon Perry arch at sanxion.net
Wed Apr 6 23:07:17 EDT 2011


On 06/04/11, Thomas S Hatch wrote:

| Right, both are viable choices, btw I will be migrating my datacenters away
| from dcron in the near future and doing a series of tests on cronie and
| fcron, I will post my findings to the list.

Here's one reason I stopped using fcron and went to cronie:

| 2.2.12. How can I emulate a Vixie cron @reboot entry?
| 
| You should use a line similar to the following one:
| 
| @volatile,first(1) BIG-period /your/command
| 
| This will run /your/command one minute after every reboot.

Bizarre.

-- 
Simon Perry (aka Pezz)



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