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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] rfc: cron.* and modern cron implementations
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:05:17
Message-Id: 20190303000509.GA31885@linux1.home
1 All,
2
3 someone brought this up on the chat channel today, so I'm bringing it
4 here to ask for information.
5
6 Is there a reason we still use run-parts and the
7 /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} structure to run repeating cron jobs?
8
9 From what I read in the chat earlier, it sounds like the modern crons
10 might be able to handle this without that structure, but I'm not sure.
11
12 Thanks,
13
14 William

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