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Date:      Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:18:39 -0600
From:      Doug Poland <wisco.disco@gmail.com>
To:        Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replacing cron with mcron
Message-ID:  <eae8cb0a0602090518u26a20a88ye9b104b9b983eb03@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2/9/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone tried this?
> I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old
> idea..
>
But old ideas are not necessarily bad ideas... I've implemented mcron
on two hosts that needed to have custom cron jobs replicated.  I
didn't need any of the power of mcron, just didn't want to mess around
with moving cron's files back and forth.

I personally like mcron where it is, as a port.  If I need basic
scheduling, the base system's cron is fine.  If i need something more
powerful, I research it, install and configure it.

--
Regards,
Doug



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