[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Thu Apr 21 15:33:57 EDT 2011


On 04/21/2011 02:18 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:48:04 +0200
> schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh at lutzhaase.com>:
>
>> I second this suggestion. cronie upstream isn't dead at all. cronie
>> is a drop-in unlike fcron which was favored earlier.
>
> Is it such a drop-in like the new dcron when dcron upstream was adopted
> by this Arch user?
>
> Better look at the features and the use cases (don't only think of some
> 24/7 servers, but also think of the desktop users) and not at some small
> differences in the crontab syntax. It's definitely not such a big work
> to re-adjust a few crontab entries if this is necessary at all. And this
> work has to be done only once and can probably be done with sed.
>

i think you are not understanding the process.

if cronie is moved in core, it won't have a replaces=dcron. Only new 
installations will get cronie by default instead of dcron.

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Ionuț


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