Am Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:41:13 +0200 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > We all know the situation with dcron (it can't keep time properly) and > it still is broken. No fix (or any changes for that matter) have gone > into its upstream git for over a year now. There have been multiple > yeah-I'll-take-a-looks from various people as well as its upstream > maintainer and no work was done. > > I certainly don't want to offend anybody but I think it is time > another crond was made quasi default by swapping it for dcron in base > group. I know that users can do that themselves but the we shouldn't > suggest packages we know are broken by putting them into the base > group. Perhaps fcron is a fine choice. > > Bug report for reference: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18681 I always voted for fcron in these discussions. It has cron and anacron features combined and can be used for every use case as far as I know. And it just works. In my opinion fcron is the best choice and making it the default cron daemon is long overdue. Heiko
