On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why do you need vixie cron syntax? Can't you migrate once to a new > syntax? Btw., most of fcron's syntax is the same as the syntax of every > cron daemon. You can easily take your previous crontabs. You probably > have only to do some changes which could most likely be done by sed. > > In first place you need stability, reliability and useful features. And > this is given by fcron. And don't tell me anything about compatibility. > I would consider this argument if fcron was a new cron daemon and if > it was totally incompatible. > > Fcron is known since years and it's known to be stable and reliable, > while cronie seems to be pretty new. There are absolutely no > informations about cronie's features, no documentations, no feature > comparisons to other cron daemons, etc. on upstream's website. And it's > still in AUR and has only 3 votes there. > The thing is that cronie is forked from vixie-cron which is much older than fcron. And I would venture to say that vixie-cron or some derivative is the default crond for the vast majority of distributions out there. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
