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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:03:50
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41SMi26bK_i3sJmpb2MHkY8nX9Ry80q3NLuMWYaptMJVQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 12/10/2013 09:18 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
3 >>
4 >> I'd say go one step further and get rid of vixie-cron completely, is
5 >> there anything it does that cronie can't do as well or better?
6 >
7 > Is cronie a drop-in replacement, or do I have to do some thinking when
8 > replacing vixie-cron?
9 >
10
11 It should be a drop-in. The only change to make would be to remove
12 vixie-cron and add cronie to the default runlevel.

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