Re: [arch-general] Myths and reality about cronie

2011-04-22 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Kaiting Chen wrote: > > [...] > Second cronie will in no way `replaces=('dcron')` but will most likely > `conflicts=('dcron')`. Therefore while it will be impossible to install both > on the same system having cronie in [core] will in no way force existing > users to switch. > > [...] > Next it is

Re: [arch-general] Myths and reality about cronie

2011-04-22 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > you know what would be reeaally cool? > A cron daemon that can read user crontabs from $HOME/.config/crontab or > something. I think all user-specific stuff should be in $HOME, > although it would probably require a posix acl to allow the

Re: [arch-general] Myths and reality about cronie

2011-04-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:53:31 +0300 Ionut Biru wrote: > On 04/22/2011 07:23 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:35 -0400 > > schrieb Kaiting Chen: > > > >> First of all the cronie in [community-testing] is compiled with > >> --enable-anacron. It installs not only an /etc/crontab b

Re: [arch-general] Myths and reality about cronie

2011-04-22 Thread Ionut Biru
On 04/22/2011 07:23 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:35 -0400 schrieb Kaiting Chen: First of all the cronie in [community-testing] is compiled with --enable-anacron. It installs not only an /etc/crontab but also an /etc/anacrontab. Scripts in '/etc/cron.hourly' are run directly

Re: [arch-general] Myths and reality about cronie

2011-04-21 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:35 -0400 schrieb Kaiting Chen : > First of all the cronie in [community-testing] is compiled with > --enable-anacron. It installs not only an /etc/crontab but also an > /etc/anacrontab. Scripts in '/etc/cron.hourly' are run directly by > `/usr/sbin/crond` while scripts in

[arch-general] Myths and reality about cronie

2011-04-21 Thread Kaiting Chen
I've compiled a short document describing exactly what cronie is and is not; and if it were to be the default what would and would not happen to base, [core], and the rest of Arch. It is my hope that this will clear up some of the misunderstanding surrounding the current discussion on arch-general.