On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:37, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Graham Wilson <bob@decoy.wox.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:06:48AM +0200, Adam Byrtek wrote: > >> * Package name : hc-cron > >> Version : 0.15 > >> Upstream Author : Felix Braun <fbraun@atdot.org> > >> * URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/hc-cron/ > >> * License : GPL > >> Description : A cron daemon for home computers > > >> It runs specified jobs at periodic intervals and will remember the > >> time when it was shut down and catch up jobs that have occurred > >> during down time when it is started again. Hc-cron is based on the > >> widely used vixie-cron and uses the same crontab format so that it > >> can be used as a drop-in replacement for that program. > > > How is this different from using cron and anacron? > > Hello, > That is obvious, isn't it? ;-) > > * anacron does not provide (its own subset of) these features for > anybody else but root, as only root can modify /etc/anacrontab. anacron lets you run a job as a user by specifying a spooldir with the -S option, and an anacrontab with the -t option. Since yesterday's dinstall run at least ;-) Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim Do Not Bend
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