disagreement in a merge review about patches

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 19:15:33 UTC 2007


Oliver Falk (oliver at linux-kernel.at) said: 
> The vixie-cron package contains so many patches and the release has been
> increased so many times now... Active development of cron is only done
> by distributions now.

Right. We (briefly) had a forked upstream for sysklogd; this would be similar.

> Or is there any good alternative for vixie-cron? I'm not 100 % sure, but
> I think I stumbled across some crond, that is under active development.
> Quick search on freshmeat or via google should be done.

fcron. Maybe it's worth switching.
 
Bill




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