On 2017-11-01 10:25, Marc Joliet wrote: > It's nice that anacron apparently sucks, but what about fcron and > cronie? I've always wondered why people who need these features don't > just one of those. Is there any reason not to? > > (FTR: I used fcron for several years before migrating to systemd > timers specifically because of its support for running missed jobs.)
I actually run cronie, and AFAICT it has no built-in anacron-like offline schedule support, claims in the Handbook/wiki notwithstanding. The writer of those claims may have been misled by run-crons :-) -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
