[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

Attila vodoo0904 at sonnenkinder.org
Thu Apr 7 01:29:53 EDT 2011


On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:29:36 +0200 Heiko Baums wrote:

> > cronie extends the original vixie cron package so the syntax, core
> > feature set, etc are stable
> > cronie implements advanced security hooks as well and can integrate
> > with SELINUX (I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a
> > latter date")  
> 
> Well, is SELinux really a default? Does SELinux run on Arch at all? Is
> this really an argument regarding the decision which cron shall be the
> default.

Only for the stats, this is shown from the fcron configure:

--with-selinux=yes|no  Use (or not) SELinux (default: yes).

Okay, now only the size and the "/etc/cron.d" support is on the list. :)

See you, Attila



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