On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:00:02 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping:
>On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] >> ... 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? I switched from vixie-cron to fcron within a couple of days of first installing Gentoo. The Gentoo handbook suggested vixie-cron, but it proved to be a bucket of bolts. The version of fcron then available had problems in those days (late 2003) with daylight saving switch-overs, but these have long been fixed. Consequently, I recommend fcron to anybody dumb enough to take my word for such things. ... :-) -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ======================================================================
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