On 2020-01-08 14:27, Daniel Leidert wrote:
And what s the benefit of this change: Getting rid of cron?
The very simple thing is: CRON=1 enables a cron job. It does *not* say:
"Please
enable something different as long as it achieves the same." There is
nothing
wrong with the cron job and it works perfectly fine. So I don't want to
have it
replaced by something less transparent.
Why do you resist the appropriate behavior of raising a question
whether the
user wants you to replace cron by systemd?
I don't think yelling in this way is helpful. "Run by cron" used to be
the way of saying that it's a periodic job - as the only means of
accomplishing this and it turns out it was a misnomer already given that
it's run from cron.daily, which might be anacron on some systems and
cron on others.
I think there needs to be a sensible choice for *periodic jobs* that we
should document as the default unless there is a reason to use something
else. It does not need to be cron, though.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
