[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Kaiting Chen]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:

> Why do you need vixie cron syntax? Can't you migrate once to a new
> syntax? Btw., most of fcron's syntax is the same as the syntax of every
> cron daemon. You can easily take your previous crontabs. You probably
> have only to do some changes which could most likely be done by sed.
>
> In first place you need stability, reliability and useful features. And
> this is given by fcron. And don't tell me anything about compatibility.
> I would consider this argument if fcron was a new cron daemon and if
> it was totally incompatible.
>
> Fcron is known since years and it's known to be stable and reliable,
> while cronie seems to be pretty new. There are absolutely no
> informations about cronie's features, no documentations, no feature
> comparisons to other cron daemons, etc. on upstream's website. And it's
> still in AUR and has only 3 votes there.
>

The thing is that cronie is forked from vixie-cron which is much older than
fcron. And I would venture to say that vixie-cron or some derivative is the
default crond for the vast majority of distributions out there. --Kaiting.

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