Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:38:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing cron with mcron Message-ID: <20060209153800.GI78323@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <44d5hwzkco.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com> <44d5hwzkco.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 09), Lowell Gilbert said: > Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com> writes: > > Has anyone tried this? > > It is in ports, so I think some people are probably using it. > > > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an > > old idea.. > > mcron is Gnu licensed, so it would have a difficult time being > accepted for the base system. As to cron being an old idea: I do not > think that mcron is really a newer idea, but rather mcron is more of > a new implementation of the same idea. Not to mention it's written in guile, so you'd have to import that too. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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