Re: Should packages depend on cron?
Hi,
>>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
Christian> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE----- On 23 Jul 1997, Manoj
>> Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>> Yes, no, and yes.
Christian> Yes, yes and no, and yes :-)
Christian> It can't replace cron in general, but I can take over
Christian> control of the /etc/cron.* scripts completely. Just add a
Christian> "cron" job to run anacron once per day.
But that means I have very little control over all the jobs in
my crontabs file (I stagger them to avoid sytem and network load
peaks). I would find that unacceptable. Also, my machine stays on for
days (would be weeks, but I have to log into NT once in a while).
Just because I rebooted back from NT in the peak network time
load does not mean that my daily news feed occurs every day after
that at peak times.
Christian> Steve, as I see you are the cron maintainer. What about if
Christian> the "cron" package would have "Depends: anacron" and have
Christian> the default /etc/crontab fire up anacron daily, instead of
Christian> running the /etc/cron.* scripts. I can configure anacron to
Christian> take over these scripts automatically.
No you don't. Not until anacron provides some better
granularity of control over timing. If you want laptop owners to see
anacron, use the keyword feature of Deity.
There are as many ISP's who use Linux, I imagine, as there are
laptop owners. Do not break existing installations to give new
services.
manoj
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