Re: Removing cron in 13.2

2013-03-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard 
> The classic Unix interface for starting processes periodically is
> cron; all other packages that need that feature use it, ever since
> Unix V7 or so in the 1970s.  If systemd has reimplemented the
> equivalent, can you fix systemd to implement the cron interface to
> that feature?  That looks like the clean way to shrink the system a
> little.
>
>
It's true, we need learn new tricks, but does not have sense have a service
not needed on every xo, if we can do it in a better way.

Info about how to replace crond  with systemd:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1101630#p1101630

Gonzalo



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Re: Removing cron in 13.2

2013-03-23 Thread John Gilmore 
> As a simple step in reducing base system footprint a little, I'm
> thinking of removing cron in 13.2.0.
> 
> The 2 current users of cron (ds-backup and olpc-update-query) will be
> moved to systemd timer units which have equivalent functionality.

The classic Unix interface for starting processes periodically is
cron; all other packages that need that feature use it, ever since
Unix V7 or so in the 1970s.  If systemd has reimplemented the
equivalent, can you fix systemd to implement the cron interface to
that feature?  That looks like the clean way to shrink the system a
little.

John
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Removing cron in 13.2

2013-03-21 Thread Daniel Drake 
Hi,

As a simple step in reducing base system footprint a little, I'm
thinking of removing cron in 13.2.0.

The 2 current users of cron (ds-backup and olpc-update-query) will be
moved to systemd timer units which have equivalent functionality.

Any objections?
Daniel
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