On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >>> >>> Another suggestion was vixie-cron - personally I have been using fcron on >>> LFS since 2001 or 2002 and later on Arch, and have been happy with it all >>> those 8 or 9 years. Whatever we do by default, I will keep on using >>> fcron. >> >> It sounds like you're a little hesitant about this. What are our >> options here? fcron, bcron, vixie-cron? > > I wasn't planning on sounding hesitant. I only know fcron and never used > vixie or bcron. fcron is very small, fcrontabs are compatible with > traditional crontabs, but have an optional extended syntax that supports > many advanced features. Did I mention that it is still pretty small? > > The only thing that one might worry about is that people might say fcron is > "unmaintained" - but then I haven't seen a single bug or missing feature in > the current release, so maybe this apparent lack of maintenance is a result > from a lack of need for maintenance.
I run fcron on at least one of my boxes; I don't even know becuase it has been so worry-free. It just works and the extended syntax is nice (e.g. running things on boot). -Dan
