[arch-general] About cron utility

SanskritFritz sanskritfritz at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 04:45:15 EST 2012


On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I've heard quite a few good things about fcron.  Am I right in thinking it has
> some slightly different syntax?  I think it was rejected as Arch default for
> that reason, but I may be misremembering.

I'm also using fcron for years (even back when cron was still the
default in arch), it is perfect, and first of all very stable. It fits
desktop usage very well.


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