On 11/06/2012 09:29 AM, Dale wrote: > > 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: >
I use vixie-cron, its most important feature being that it scans /etc/crontab automatically so I don't have to remember to run `crontab /etc/crontab` every time I make a change to it. Fcron was aimed at being a vixie-cron replacement, but it doesn't automatically scan /etc/crontab. It does allow you to run missed jobs, though. Personally, if I want my cron jobs to run, I don't turn the machine off. Dcron is also probably also pretty good, since it was written by Matt Dillon (of Dragonfly BSD fame). If you switch away from vixie-cron, you might need to run `crontab /etc/crontab` once unless the ebuild does it for you. Otherwise, all the cron daemon does is invoke the run-crons script which does the real work.
