On Monday, 6 November 2017 23:11:44 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > > On 2017-11-05 17:17, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Distros will always have to do integration work, and that is fine. > >> That is the role of a distro. And sometimes distros have to roll > >> their own tools when they just aren't available. Once upon a time > >> service managers fell into that category. Now this is less the case. > > > > What's a service manager? > > Easiest way to explain it is to give examples. Openrc, systemd, > runit, and upstart are all service managers. I'd argue that sysvinit > is also a service manager but nobody really uses it as one unless you > count getty as a service. > > A service manager is a program used to manage the daemons running on a > system. > > Is making cron care about missed jobs service > > management, but running daily/weekly/monthly jobs isn't? > > Cron is generally not considered a service manager though there is > some overlap since it does manage jobs. I wouldn't make any > distinction in this regard to how it handles missed jobs. Those are > just features that a cron implementation can have or lack. > > It is like arguing about whether sh, dash, or bash are shells on the > basis of the features they provide. They're all shells, but at the > same time we can acknowledge that they have different feature sets.
Apologies for prolonging this exhaustive and exhausting thread, but what is the Gentoo suggested cron application for a non-24-7 desktop these days? I'm still using sys-process/vixie-cron because I guess that's what was de rigueur at the time I installed this system, although on other desktop PCs I run sys- process/cronie. -- Regards, Mick
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
