On Monday, August 31, 2020 7:01:12 AM MST Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Things are in flux again and cron/atd has pretty much hit the end of
the
road.
What is this comment based on? Cron jobs are still standard. You have cron
jobs no matter what unix-like you're on, and crontab follows a standard syntax
between all distros and modern unix-likes. Nearly every article to this day
tells you how to use cron jobs to run tasks on a schedule, or how to use `at`
for one-offs.
The systemd people have come up with a different method in timers
That's well and great, but that has nothing to do with Cron. I wish the
systemd folks the best with their latest toys.
the workstation people want the defaults to not have cron anymore.
What's this based on? Chris seemed to be confused as to why it was there, but
didn't say anything about removing it. He did suggest *disabling* it, but
there's a far better option: Have it start in the background, if it doesn't
already.
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John M. Harris, Jr.