[arch-general] About cron utility

[Heiko Baums]

Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:31:55 +0000
schrieb Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>:

> 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 don't know the reasons for choosing cronie as the default instead of
fcron. But as far as I know the syntax is indeed slightly different,
but this has to be changed only once, and I doubt that this is a big
problem.

Heiko