Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-08 Thread Ryan Reich
On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2007, Ryan Reich wrote: I have to disagree in this particular case. The anacron homepage, anacron.sourceforge.net, gives this exact situation as its primary example of what anacron is intended for. Sure, it's not good for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Ryan Reich wrote: This is a small essay on Gentoo's setup for fcron. which is troublesome because some of the things here are specific to fcron (which frankly dont interest me) while others are specific to the cronbase package which installs `run-crons` (which does

[gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Ryan Reich
On 7/7/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2007, Ryan Reich wrote: This is a small essay on Gentoo's setup for fcron. which is troublesome because some of the things here are specific to fcron (which frankly dont interest me) while others are specific to the cronbase

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Gordon
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is implemented, if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the time that the cronjob is supposed to fire, then the standard you proposed will pretty much never

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Peter Gordon wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is implemented, if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the time that the cronjob is supposed to fire, then the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Ryan Reich
On 7/7/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007, Peter Gordon wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is implemented, if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 08 July 2007, Ryan Reich wrote: On 7/7/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007, Peter Gordon wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is implemented, if you

[gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-01 Thread Ryan Reich
My apologies for triple-posting this. I can't tell which list would be most appropriate, since it is a user, development, and performance issue (albeit a minor performance issue). This is a small essay on Gentoo's setup for fcron. My issue: I just installed fcron and I have to say, I'm a