Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

[Lars Wendler]

Am Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:42:03 +0000
schrieb Pavlos Ratis <dastergon@g.o>:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
>
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197625#c14
> >
> > This has reminded me that maybe we should switch to cronie from
> > vixie-cron as default and recommended cron provider in Handbook.
> > Last time I checked, vixie-cron upstream was died while cronie
> > forked it fixing some bugs :/
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I am all for it. I wouldn't say that vixie-cron is dead since it is
> still functional, however I would rather say that it is outdated.
> In my opinion, cronie, unlike the other cron variants is the most
> reliable. Also, many other distributions like Arch[1] and openSUSE[2]
> have already switched from vixie-cron to cronie.
>
> Note: We need a new entry for cronie to our Cron wiki page [3]
>
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cron
> [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cron_replace
> [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron
>
> Pavlos

I've added cronie to our Wiki cron page.

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Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer