Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:07:44 Andreas wrote: Does someone know if cronie does support running missed jobs automatically (asynchronous job processing)? I think that's why Cronie ships with Anacron. The latter is supposed to deal with those cases, I think. It's largely the split

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:45:48 + schrieb Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com: On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:07:44 Andreas wrote: Does someone know if cronie does support running missed jobs automatically (asynchronous job processing)? I think that's why Cronie ships with Anacron. The

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote: fcron runs missed jobs if bootrun is set at the beginning of the line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and works perfectly. I've heard quite a few good things about fcron. Am I right in thinking it has some slightly

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread SanskritFritz
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote: fcron runs missed jobs if bootrun is set at the beginning of the line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and works perfectly. I've heard

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:31:55 + schrieb Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com: On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote: fcron runs missed jobs if bootrun is set at the beginning of the line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and works perfectly. I've

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 8 Jan 2012 10:45:15 +0100 schrieb SanskritFritz sanskritfr...@gmail.com: I'm also using fcron for years (even back when cron was still the default in arch), it is perfect, and first of all very stable. It fits desktop usage very well. And it fits server usage just as well. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:29:12 +0530 schrieb gt codere...@gmail.com: I am using dcron, and am quite satisfied with it. Can you elaborate why you recommend fcron, i might switch. Usually I wouldn't say something like RTFM, but since I don't want to start such a long discussion about this topic

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 11:49:48 郑文辉 wrote: Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? Cronie in base group seems has a separate anacrontab in /etc which is not kiss I think? If anacron functionity has been included in dcron by default, May be dron is a good choice? I would

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-07 Thread Andreas
2012/1/7 Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com: On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 11:49:48 郑文辉 wrote: Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? Cronie in base group seems has a separate anacrontab in /etc which is not kiss I think? If anacron functionity has been included in dcron by default,

[arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread Techlive Zheng
Recently, I noticed that my laptop and server are using different cron utility.My laptop is using dcron while server using cronie. Then,I did some digging about the Arch default cron utility.I found a [discussion](http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-April/019282.html) happend

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:49:48 +0800 schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) techlivezh...@gmail.com: Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? I would still recommend fcron. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread Gour
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 05:50:06 +0100 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: I would still recommend fcron. +1 Sincerely, Gour -- As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread gt
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:50:06AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:49:48 +0800 schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) techlivezh...@gmail.com: Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? I would still recommend fcron. I am using dcron, and am quite satisfied with it. Can you