On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: > Has anybody try to use fcron instead of Vixie cron? How well does it > work in practice, especially if you've got tons of existing cron jobs > written for Vixie cron?
It would work reasonably well, if I had the time to port SELinux to the latest upstream, debug it, and properly maintain the Debian packaging of fcron. Which I don't, and the package got removed from unstable and testing because of that. If you don't need SELinux integration, I think upstream fcron will be able to handle a large number of jobs just fine. However, fcron is in deep maintenance mode upstream, and there are newer cron alternatives that are being actively developed such as bcron. It is probably worth it to check them out first. > I'm mainly interested in time zone support because our systems run on > UTC, but we have jobs which need to run daily according to local time > and our current workarounds aren't nice (hourly execution with an > additional check, or edit the entries twice a year). I don't think fcron does much to help you with this use case, but it has been some time since I last read through its full documentation. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110923153506.gb2...@khazad-dum.debian.net
