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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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