On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:15:22AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:04:24AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > + - unit generator for compatibility with crontab and cron.d > >> > >> We kind of decided to port the 40-60 things that use the .d/ dirs to > >> native units right away, and leave cron as it is, and not parse its > >> config files from systemd. > >> > >> If people want cron, they should install it; new or common stuff > >> should just not pull it in anymore. The default install should not > >> require it. > > > > I figured this fell in the general area of "wouldn't do it ourselves, > > but would probably take a clean patch", which seemed like a good use of > > TODO. > > Not really, we cannot or don't want to cover all of cron, so cron > stays around anyway for the grey beards, or existing things out there.
As far as I can tell, timer units already support almost everything crontabs do; the problem then just becomes a format parser and unit generator. - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel