Am Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:42:03 +0000 schrieb Pavlos Ratis <daster...@gentoo.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197625#c14 > > > > This has reminded me that maybe we should switch to cronie from > > vixie-cron as default and recommended cron provider in Handbook. > > Last time I checked, vixie-cron upstream was died while cronie > > forked it fixing some bugs :/ > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > > > > I am all for it. I wouldn't say that vixie-cron is dead since it is > still functional, however I would rather say that it is outdated. > In my opinion, cronie, unlike the other cron variants is the most > reliable. Also, many other distributions like Arch[1] and openSUSE[2] > have already switched from vixie-cron to cronie. > > Note: We need a new entry for cronie to our Cron wiki page [3] > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cron > [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cron_replace > [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron > > Pavlos I've added cronie to our Wiki cron page. -- Lars Wendler Gentoo package maintainer
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