On 12/11/2013 03:03 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> Is cronie a drop-in replacement, or do I have to do some thinking when >> replacing vixie-cron? >> > > It should be a drop-in. The only change to make would be to remove > vixie-cron and add cronie to the default runlevel. >
I noticed two small differences: 1. Emails come from "(Cron Daemon)" instead of "Cron Daemon". 2. The binary is /usr/sbin/crond instead of /usr/sbin/cron. Everything else seems normal. Here are the steps to update; they're obvious, but it's easy to skip some accidentally: rc-update del vixie-cron default /etc/init.d/vixie-cron stop emerge -C vixie-cron emerge cronie rc-update add cronie default /etc/init.d/cronie start
