Re: Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 09), Michael P. Soulier said: > On 09/02/06 Iantcho Vassilev said: > > Has anyone tried this? I even think of proposing this to the base > > system - cron is such an old idea.. > > What does mcron offer? My main complaints about cron are: > > 1. Difficult to do refined ti

Re: Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/02/06 Iantcho Vassilev said: > Has anyone tried this? > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old > idea.. What does mcron offer? My main complaints about cron are: 1. Difficult to do refined timing, like execute on the first tuesday of each month. I tend to u

Re: Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 09), Lowell Gilbert said: > Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anyone tried this? > > It is in ports, so I think some people are probably using it. > > > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an > > old idea.. > > mcron is Gnu

Re: Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone tried this? It is in ports, so I think some people are probably using it. > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old > idea.. mcron is Gnu licensed, so it would have a difficult time being accepted for the

Re: Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Doug Poland
On 2/9/06, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone tried this? > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old > idea.. > But old ideas are not necessarily bad ideas... I've implemented mcron on two hosts that needed to have custom cron jobs replicated. I

Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
Has anyone tried this? I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old idea.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTE