[arch-general] About cron utility

[Heiko Baums]

Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:45:48 +0000
schrieb Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>:

> On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:07:44 Andreas wrote:
> > Does someone know if cronie does support running missed jobs
> > automatically (asynchronous job processing)?
> 
> I think that's why Cronie ships with Anacron.  The latter is supposed
> to deal with those cases, I think.  It's largely the split
> implementation that puts me off Cronie.

fcron runs missed jobs if &bootrun is set at the beginning of the
line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and
works perfectly.

Heiko