fcron as a cron replacement

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 16:17:27 UTC 2004


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?

I'm of the opinion that while people may want three different
editors, things like cron daemons and syslog daemons don't
fall into that boat... there should be one for the system.

Bill





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