Why not use vixie-cron?

ffjia · 2009-09-24 07:23:53

Instead of dcron, vixie-cron has more features. And many distros choose vixie-cron as their default cron daemon.

I want to know why arch dev team don't use vixie-cron? Thanks

brazzmonkey · 2009-09-24 07:27:50

Because of KISS?
It's in AUR anyhow...

Allan · 2009-09-24 07:28:26

We are probably going to fcron: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16085

ffjia · 2009-09-24 08:03:11

brazzmonkey wrote:

Because of KISS?
It's in AUR anyhow...

It's not even in the community repo

ffjia · 2009-09-24 08:04:28

Allan wrote:

We are probably going to fcron: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16085

So, is fcron better than vixie-cron?

Allan · 2009-09-24 08:07:51

You seem to be the expert on vixie-cron... fcron can also do the job of anacron so probably yes.

ffjia · 2009-09-24 09:48:31

I'm not an expert, hehe.

I had a look at fcron's manual, it aims at replacing vixie cron, great.

It's pretty cool, if it does do both the jobs of vixie-cron and anacron, hmm

Gen2ly · 2009-09-24 19:41:08

I had to go to fcron when vixie-cron was having problems in Gentoo. Worked good and updates did fine.

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:LPi … =firefox-a

bernarcher · 2009-09-24 20:39:35

+1 for fcron.
I do use it for several years now and had no problem with it.

Tuxie · 2009-09-29 08:46:34

I vote for vixie-cron unless the fcron package will be configured to support /etc/cron.d/ by default. That means (iirc) using a wrapper script running running every minute, checking for updates in /etc/cron.d/* and merging them to /etc/crontab.

patroclo7 · 2010-01-28 21:33:14

Tuxie wrote:

I vote for vixie-cron unless the fcron package will be configured to support /etc/cron.d/ by default. That means (iirc) using a wrapper script running running every minute, checking for updates in /etc/cron.d/* and merging them to /etc/crontab.

This is already done in the fcron AUR package (recently downgraded to unsuspported, sadly)

hatten · 2010-01-28 21:42:04

Allan wrote:

We are probably going to fcron: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16085

reading that it looked like bcron was going to win...

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-29 01:40:16

Using fcron for a while and it does the job well.

Here's a nice article about different crons.

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2010-01-29 08:20:23)

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Why not use vixie-cron?

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