[gobolinux-users] Cron on 013

[Dan]

I'd strongly suggest not actually including one by default, but making it available through a package or recipe. I rather dislike it when my computer does things I haven't explicitly told it to do. At the very least, make sure the installer asks permission.

I have no intelligent argument for which one to use. The one I've got on my server is called anacron, but that's just because it's the one that ships with Ubuntu.

As for system integration, when a package or recipe wants something installed as a cron job, it could include it as /Programs/Whatever/Current/Shared/Scheduled/{daily,weekly,hourly,whatever}. If such a directory exists in a package or recipe, SymlinkProgram should do something like this:

SymlinkProgram: Symlinking wrappers...
SymlinkProgram: Symlinking shared...
SymlinkProgram: This package includes scheduled task 'updatedb.' Install this as well? [Yes/No]


Just my opinion.
Dan


Carlo Calica wrote:
> Someone recently requested a cron daemon on 013.  I'd like to request
> feedback from the user community.
> 
> 1)  Which cron daemon?  Choices are vixie-cron, dcron, fcron[1]. and
> more.  I find fcron interesting because of its flexible way of
> specifying run times.
> 
> 2) Integration to the system.  Should /Programs entries be able to add
> items to system crontab.  Should it be automatic or require admin
> intervention?
> 
> 3) Included cronjobs.  Rotate logs?  Clean /tmp?  Clean
> /File/Compile/{Archives,Sources}? makewhatis?  what else?
> 
> 4) Floor is open.  Please discuss.
> 
> thanks for your feedback
> 
> [1] http://fcron.free.fr/
> 
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> Carlo J. Calica
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