Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 8 Jan 2012 10:45:15 +0100 schrieb SanskritFritz : > I'm also using fcron for years (even back when cron was still the > default in arch), it is perfect, and first of all very stable. It fits > desktop usage very well. And it fits server usage just as well. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:31:55 + schrieb Paul Gideon Dann : > On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote: > > fcron runs missed jobs if &bootrun is set at the beginning of the > > line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and > > works perfectly. > > I've heard quit

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread SanskritFritz
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote: >> fcron runs missed jobs if &bootrun is set at the beginning of the >> line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and >> works perfectly. > > I've heard quite a few g

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote: > fcron runs missed jobs if &bootrun is set at the beginning of the > line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and > works perfectly. I've heard quite a few good things about fcron. Am I right in thinking it has some sligh

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:45:48 + schrieb Paul Gideon Dann : > On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:07:44 Andreas wrote: > > Does someone know if cronie does support running missed jobs > > automatically (asynchronous job processing)? > > I think that's why Cronie ships with Anacron. The latter is suppos

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:07:44 Andreas wrote: > Does someone know if cronie does support running missed jobs > automatically (asynchronous job processing)? I think that's why Cronie ships with Anacron. The latter is supposed to deal with those cases, I think. It's largely the split implementa

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-07 Thread Andreas
2012/1/7 Paul Gideon Dann : > On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 11:49:48 郑文辉 wrote: >> Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? Cronie in base group >> seems has a separate anacrontab in /etc which is not kiss I think? If >> anacron functionity has been included in dcron by default, May be dron

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 11:49:48 郑文辉 wrote: > Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? Cronie in base group > seems has a separate anacrontab in /etc which is not kiss I think? If > anacron functionity has been included in dcron by default, May be dron > is a good choice? I would rec

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:29:12 +0530 schrieb gt : > I am using dcron, and am quite satisfied with it. Can you elaborate > why you recommend fcron, i might switch. Usually I wouldn't say something like RTFM, but since I don't want to start such a long discussion about this topic again, I think you sh

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread gt
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:50:06AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:49:48 +0800 > schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) : > > > Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? > > I would still recommend fcron. I am using dcron, and am quite satisfied with it. Can you elaborate why you r

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread Gour
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 05:50:06 +0100 Heiko Baums wrote: > I would still recommend fcron. +1 Sincerely, Gour -- As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path. http://atm

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:49:48 +0800 schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) : > Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? I would still recommend fcron. Heiko

[arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread Techlive Zheng
Recently, I noticed that my laptop and server are using different cron utility.My laptop is using dcron while server using cronie. Then,I did some digging about the Arch default cron utility.I found a [discussion](http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-April/019282.html) happend