On 7 Sep 2012, at 8:06 AM, Jose C <[email protected]> wrote: > Using system/external cron, you should use the -J flag. > > Jonathan, could you elaborate on what the `J` flag is supposed to do? I've > just run external cron tests both with and without that flag and can't see > any visible difference. I've scanned the source but can only find reference > to it in newcron.py.
Mainly, it avoids some unnecessary overhead, and automatically sets some other useful flags (like -N). And in the trunk (so wait for >2.0.8), it sets nobanner and nogui. Also, it overrides requires_https. (I don't actually see a reference to it in newcron.py...) --
