fcron as a cron replacement

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

>>>   Bill> Jens Petersen (petersen at redhat.com) said:
>>>   >> What do people think of replacing our cron package
>>>   >> (vixie-cron) and anacron with fcron?
>>>   >> http://fcron.free.fr/
>>>   >> Fwiw 2.9.4 is supposed to have SElinux support.
>>>
>>>   Bill> It would be *really nice* if this was commandline
>>>   Bill> and configuration file compatible with cron. :(
>>>
>>>Right.  Well another possibility is perhaps to add fcron to
>>>Fedora Core as an alternative to vixie-cron?
>>
>>Ship and support 2 applications to serve the same purpose which 
>>largely overlap in functionality?  I thought we were trying to 
>>get rid of that?
>>
>>My thoughts:
>>
>>1) Shove fcron into Fedora Extras
>>2) Add SElinux support to vixie cron
>
>vixie-cron has SELinux support.

Heh, I guess that solves that one.  ;o)



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