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Bug#251980: ITP: hc-cron -- A cron daemon for home computers



On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:53:58PM -0500, Graham Wilson 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?

Anacron is a dirty hack.

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