Re: Should packages depend on cron?
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
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> On 23 Jul 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
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> > Does anacron work for people who do have their machines up all
> > the time? can it be used to replace cron entirely? Is it stable?
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> Yes, no, and yes.
Yes, yes and no, and yes :-)
It can't replace cron in general, but I can take over control of the
/etc/cron.* scripts completely. Just add a "cron" job to run anacron once
per day.
Steve, as I see you are the cron maintainer. What about if the "cron"
package would have "Depends: anacron" and have the default /etc/crontab
fire up anacron daily, instead of running the /etc/cron.* scripts. I can
configure anacron to take over these scripts automatically.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Chris
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