:> Well, it's light, small and compact, and it does all we need (which is :> schedule commands to run at certain times). Administration-wise it's not :> different. (edit crons with crontab -e, same crontab format). It's also :> very mature (and because of that, also very secure). I don't actually :> see why we couldn't get rid of vixie's cron and use dcron instead. : :They are functionally identical, except the one we have is in more common :usage and doesn't need to be updated or relicensed. : :We're already discussed a bug tracking system when working alternatives :exist, plus a new source tracking system (cvsup). We've got a lot of :bread, and only so much butter to spread on it - I'd rather work on :technology that doesn't already exist.
There are a bunch of things that vixie cron does that dcron does not, like deal with environment variables and execute-on-startup directives in the crontab and TZ overrides. If someone wants to work on those items, and whatever else is missing, then I wouldn't mine replacing it. But I don't have time to work on it myself. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>