Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Jens Petersen wrote:
>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:40:30 +0900
>From: Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com>
>To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
>Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
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>Subject: Re: fcron as a cron replacement
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>>>>>>"Bill" == Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
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> Bill> Jens Petersen (petersen(a)redhat.com) said:
> >> What do people think of replacing our cron package
> >> (vixie-cron) and anacron with fcron?
> >>
http://fcron.free.fr/
> >> Fwiw 2.9.4 is supposed to have SElinux support.
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> Bill> It would be *really nice* if this was commandline
> Bill> and configuration file compatible with cron. :(
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>Right. Well another possibility is perhaps to add fcron to
>Fedora Core as an alternative to vixie-cron?
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Ship and support 2 applications to serve the same purpose which
largely overlap in functionality? I thought we were trying to
get rid of that?
My thoughts:
1) Shove fcron into Fedora Extras
2) Add SElinux support to vixie cron