On 2017-11-05 07:11, Rich Freeman wrote: > 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.
If Kai is right that fcron handles it, the reason is probably systemd people thought that had to match the functionality to be considered a full replacement. Especially since fcron is the normal system cron on Fedora/RH, right? > I personally use systemd-cron which basically is a wrapper+generator > around /etc/crontab and the various /etc/cron.*/ scripts. If your dislike for having this in cron itself comes down to shell script vs. C code, and it appears so from the above, I'm not at all sure I agree. This to me seems one of the few tasks where shell script is in fact a good fit: mainly looking at files, timestamps, and running other programs. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
