> 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 > > Thanks for that; I had already looked at dcron and I'm now veering towards that. I notice that Arch have swapped dcron for cronie.
Richard
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