Jean-Philippe Mengual wrote: > Hi, > Could someone explain to me why, in the book blfs, is Fcron-2.9.5.1 > replace cr¨ontab I used on Debian? Cannot I install crontab? Why > replacement?
I'm not sure of the original reasons, but I use fcron because it seems better than Vixie Cron at handling machines that are not always switched on. For example, a machine that is dual-booted with another OS. You can install Vixie Cron, or anything else, if you like - it's your system. You could also install fcron and set a symlink from /usr/bin/crontab to /usr/bin/fcrontab - then it would look like crontab and you don't need to remember a new command - but then you might forget :-) > Moreover, about using fcron, is there a difference? With crontab, I > did crontab -e then I wrote a file, is it the same thing or are there > important differences? Most of the crontab settings are identical, there are a few extra settings for fcron to handle things like '10 minutes after starting and then every 4 hours': http://fcron.free.fr/doc/index.html (not far from you :-) > Thanks for your information. You're welcome. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
