On Monday, August 31, 2020 7:01:12 AM MST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Things are in flux again and cron/atd has pretty much hit the end of the > road. What is this comment based on? Cron jobs are still standard. You have cron jobs no matter what unix-like you're on, and crontab follows a standard syntax between all distros and modern unix-likes. Nearly every article to this day tells you how to use cron jobs to run tasks on a schedule, or how to use `at` for one-offs. > The systemd people have come up with a different method in timers That's well and great, but that has nothing to do with Cron. I wish the systemd folks the best with their latest toys. > the workstation people want the defaults to not have cron anymore. What's this based on? Chris seemed to be confused as to why it was there, but didn't say anything about removing it. He did suggest *disabling* it, but there's a far better option: Have it start in the background, if it doesn't already. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
