Date: 09 Feb 2006 09:18:31 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing cron with mcron Message-ID: <44d5hwzkco.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com> References: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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