On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does > >> anyone here use bcron to comment on that?) > > > bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot and the other @*. See > > http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bcrontab&sektion=5 > > Hm. I wonder how many packages that ship cron.d files expect the @* stuff > to work. If none, then maybe we should document that packages shouldn't > rely on it. > > Everything other than @reboot is trivial to replace. @reboot is a lot > trickier, although I suspect most packages use an init script.
As a user, I got used to rely on @reboot to start services (like an irc proxy). And I have used it in packages (outside of Debian though) as well because init scripts are a pain nowadays compared to this simple solution (need to write meta-information to order the boot, etc). It would be nice if we could mandate its support. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
