use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Alain PORTAL aportal at univ-montp2.fr
Mon Dec 22 14:13:05 UTC 2008


Hi,

Le vendredi 5 décembre 2008 à 20:59, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I think that fcron should be the default scheduler in fedora.
> fcron, with the service fcron_watch_config activated should now be
> 100% compatible with vixie-cron (cronie). The fcron_watch_config stuff
> is a bit convoluted (3 scripts and one C program...) but should work.
>
> The advantages over cronie are the following:
> * it also does what anacron does
> * it has more features
> * instead of waking up every minutes to look at config files, like
>   cronie do, it uses inotify to watch the config. This should lead to
>   less awaking and certainly be interesting for power saving in some
>   situations
>
> I won't push this more, somebody else has to volunteer to make this
> happen. I think it could be done in F11 and it should be a feature.

Do you intend to package fcron for EPEL?

Regards,
Alain
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