[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

Thomas S Hatch thatch45 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 18:37:33 EDT 2011


> 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
>

I agree with Sven, the more I look into it the more I think that cronie is
the right way to go for a default cron daemon.
With that said, the more I have learned about fcron the more I have liked
it!
+1


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