Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/06/2012 06:24 AM, Michael George wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote: >>>> Local time changes of less than three hours, such as those >>>> caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled >>>> specially. This only applies to jobs that run at a specific >>>> time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one >>>> hour. Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally. >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>> So it seems that DST changes are accommodated. Is there some >>>> side-effect of the cron.<period> method of scheduling tasks that I'm >>>> overlooking? >>>> >>> The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the >>> special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever: >>> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777 >> I'm surprised that hasn't been fixed by now. Looking at the cron guide >> (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777), is bcron subject to the >> same problem because the run-crons script is in cronbase and not part of >> the cron daemon? >> > I think all of them are, out-of-the-box. I just commented on the bug. I > think the sensible thing to do is delete the time-management code in the > run-crons script. It's only there as a half-assed attempt to run your > missed jobs after a reboot, which fcron (and maybe others) does properly. > > If you don't want to mess with run-crons, you could just replace the > stuff in /etc/crontab. All you really need is one command per line that > does (untested), > > find "/etc/cron.${PERIOD}" -type f -executable -exec bash '{}' \; > >
Well, I'm medicated so pardon me if I get silly. What is the BEST cron to use? I'm using vixie-cron since that is what was in the handbook during my install. Let's not get into how long ago that was. lol So, what cron has . . . well. . . the least issues and is more developed? Oh, would I need to reemerge anything to get the stuff updated? Things like logrotate and such? I also couldn't find any USE flags for it either. I know these use cron: root@fireball / # ls -R /etc/cron* /etc/cron.deny /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d: /etc/cron.daily: hplip_cron logrotate.cron makewhatis mlocate /etc/cron.hourly: /etc/cron.monthly: /etc/cron.weekly: pfl root@fireball / # Thanks much. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
