Re: What happened to anacron?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

If you read my bugzilla, I have a valid point even for AS.  If I had a 4
or 8-CPU Enterprise class server with a scheduled downtime after-hours,
I want the machine to boot and I want anacron to run the cron jobs I
missed during the planned downtime.

I guess they pulled it so they don't have to officially support it. 
Adding it from RH 9 is not a big deal, but there will be no official
support  :-(

/Brian/

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:38, John Haxby wrote:
> 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
> 
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