Re: What happened to anacron?

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Stephen Smoogen wrote:

> My rememberance of the discussion was that it was dropped because
> Enterprise systems were less likely to be turned off. I mentioned that
> we have a ton of systems that have to be turned off when there is no one
> present in the room... but got the idea I was in the minority case here.
> I am just porting it from fedora/9 and putting it in our future tree of
> extras.
>  
That argument doesn't even begin to hold water with RHEL WS -- before 
anacron came along I had to go around and train people not to switch off 
their computers when they went home.   Many people do switch off their 
workstations when they go home.    People developing large scale 
enterprise software are probably going to be running RHEL ES on their 
workstations as well.   Obviously I'm coming late to this debate, but I 
would've had anacron installed by default for WS not installed by 
default for ES and AS (well, you could have it not there for AS -- those 
machines are supposed to be on all the time and I wouldn't expect to 
find someone running AS on their workstation, not even me :-))

jch