On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:48:16 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > What's wrong with anacron? It is pointless stupid and annoying :-). It constantly picks highly inconvenient times to rerun cron jobs it thinks it didn't run, but it is almost always wrong about that because of the way things like the /etc/cron.daily script are setup. There are a dozen scripts in there. It runs the daily job, completing 11 of 'em, then I need to reboot or there is a power flicker or something. At some random time, it says to itself "OMG! cron.daily didn't finish, I'll just rerun all 12 of the scripts again". I find it much more sensible and convenient to have the dadgum cron jobs run when they are supposed to run, and if I take the machine down, it is my problem if they didn't run and it is up to me to fix (or ignore). If I erase anacron, I don't have to configure two crontabs either, just the one, but it is much more predictable :-). It used to be simple - I'd just disable the anacron service, and no more annoying anacron. Now I need to reconfigure the crontab I used to have. I hate this new setup :-). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
