On 16 Apr 2010, at 18:58, Francesco Talamona wrote:
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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You probably don't want to hear this, but:
vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with
it's weird behaviours.
Use a different cron daemon.
Your advice is vague :)
I use app-admin/syslog-ng and I wouldn't change, Alan you too can try
it.
syslog-ng is a system logger, not a cron daemon.
I appreciate this is an easy mistake to make, as they are adjacent in
the Gentoo installation instructions, and we generally ignore both
components when they are working normally.
Stroller.
