On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > > >> first time, not even on the archives. > > >> > > >> Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out > > >> why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) > > >> vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just > > >> stops. > > >> > > >> I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping > > >> someone here has some good ideas :) > > >> > > >> thanks in advance > > >> > > >> Matt > > > > > > 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. > > > > I am using vixie as well. It was in the install guide many years ago. > > What all would have to be changed to switch to fcron? I think some > > packages "detect" which cron you have installed and put things in the > > proper place for cron jobs to run. I could be wrong on that since it > > has been a while since I noticed packages doing this. > > emerge -C vixie-cron && emerge <other cron of your choice> > > You might have to tweak crontabs. > > I have come to detest with a passion every piece of software written or > inspired by Paul Vixie. It took 10-15 years to get bind into a shape where > it takes less than 20 minutes to start here, it's low, buggy and > performance is pathetic. dhcp is just way too complex for my liking, ... > > ... and as for vixie-cron: When software doesn't act like it's supposed to, > breaks in horrible ways without giving me any clue (like, "cron restart" > works with no known init scripts on any platform I have) and instead says > "cron restarted [OK]", which brings down 5000 Cisco devices as as a nasty > side effect, and causes a Severity 0 committee to be called, twice, then > that software's remaining life span on my boxes is measured in > milliseconds :-) > > rant over
Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? -- Regards, Mick
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