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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:00:02 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] |
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vixie-cron keeps stopping: |
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>On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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[snip] |
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>> ... and as for vixie-cron: When software doesn't act like it's |
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>> supposed to, breaks in horrible ways without giving me any clue |
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>> (like, "cron restart" works with no known init scripts on any |
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>> platform I have) and instead says "cron restarted [OK]", which |
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>> brings down 5000 Cisco devices as as a nasty side effect, and causes |
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>> a Severity 0 committee to be called, twice, then that software's |
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>> remaining life span on my boxes is measured in milliseconds :-) |
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>> |
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>> rant over |
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>Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! |
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>Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? |
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I switched from vixie-cron to fcron within a couple of days of first |
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installing Gentoo. The Gentoo handbook suggested vixie-cron, but it |
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proved to be a bucket of bolts. The version of fcron then available had |
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problems in those days (late 2003) with daylight saving switch-overs, |
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but these have long been fixed. |
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Consequently, I recommend fcron to anybody dumb enough to take my word |
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for such things. ... :-) |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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