On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:19:18 +1000 Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Surely someone can run a git bisect on this issue. It is a > reasonably new occurrence. > > Or are we just going to switch software every time a bug is found... I guess the issue is, that most people wanted fcron all along. Th last time this discussion came up, already many spoke out in favor of fcron. Then Jim put dcron on "life support" with an infusion from his own yacron software. This already means "our" dcron cannot be compared to other distributions' dcron anymore and the feature set is actually closer to fcron now than to the original dcron. (Gentoo still uses dcron 3.2 in stable for example.) I already used fcron on Gentoo years ago (Gentoo doesn't really have a default cron except if you count vixie-cron which is the only option for networkless installs) since I preferred the syntax and the way it separates root's crontab and the system crontab, but stayed with dcron on most of my arch boxes for convenience and lack of need for actually touching any crontab on them. FWIW I haven't seen the bug which started this discussion but that might be because i don't pay that much attention to most cron jobs. The ones I expect a daily mail from have correctly run once each day until now. -- Jinks
