On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are other schedulers out there that succeed where cron fails (eg > Control-M, chronos, quartz), but those are all large, bulky, designed > for big complex installs/requirements and probably not suited for simple > things you'd deploy out of a base in portage >
Amusing that you classify 99.999% of all desktop installs as "big complex installs." But, I agree that it makes far more sense to just have desktop users use an appropriate cron implementation designed to handle the machine being off most of the time vs trying to use shell scripting to make vixie cron into such an implementation. FWIW this is probably the reasoning behind including cron-like functionality in systemd, and having it support optionally running jobs if the system was down during a calendar-based event. It was considered bare-bones functionality that any desktop or generic server would need. It is, of course, optional, and just about any kind of rule is supported. I personally use systemd-cron which basically is a wrapper+generator around /etc/crontab and the various /etc/cron.*/ scripts. -- Rich
