> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:49:02 +0000 > From: Richard Melville <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [blfs-support] hcron > > Has anybody had any experience of hcron? > > http://code.google.com/p/hcron/ > > It looks like a good (and simpler?) alternative to Fcron. > > Richard
Not used hcron. Read the first page of the link: it seems like it doesn't buy you very much: it's dead simple to git-track a similar job-spec plus a simple awk/sh/lex-yacc program to generate and distribute the required normal-format cron-specs. Looks like they're actually maybe trying to solve the wider-picture more- general issue of configuration-tracking, rather than any cron-specific stuff. It's quite easy to git-track (or similar rcs) os-config, and for multiple machines, from a single location. ((Folks would do well to really learn current tools, and how to combine them, rather than endlessly try swap-outs for a magic bullet.)) Coming back to cron: I could recommend 'dcron' - has been main cron in slackware for ages; originated (iirc) as a 'saner', more-lightweight, version of vixie-cron (the same vixie as in bind (iirc-o(tto)mh); the ''complexity'' of vixie-cron reminds me of the ''complexity'' of bind, & vice-versa). hth, akh -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
