Thomas Bächler wrote:
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
Another suggestion was vixie-cron - personally I have been using
fcron on
LFS since 2001 or 2002 and later on Arch, and have been happy with
it all
those 8 or 9 years. Whatever we do by default, I will keep on using
fcron.
It sounds like you're a little hesitant about this. What are our
options here? fcron, bcron, vixie-cron?
I wasn't planning on sounding hesitant. I only know fcron and never
used vixie or bcron. fcron is very small, fcrontabs are compatible
with traditional crontabs, but have an optional extended syntax that
supports many advanced features. Did I mention that it is still pretty
small?
The only thing that one might worry about is that people might say
fcron is "unmaintained" - but then I haven't seen a single bug or
missing feature in the current release, so maybe this apparent lack of
maintenance is a result from a lack of need for maintenance.
All cron's seem to have no releases in recent years... so I doubt that
can be used to choose. So features seem the way to go. For those that
want a fairly good guide to the different crons, check out
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml#doc_chap2
I remember fcron from my LFS days, so I am happy using it. when a
decision is not obvious, select from nostalgia. :P
Allan
