Re: [Sheflug] suggestions for a cron daemon

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Chris J wrote:

> > Does anybody have any suggestions for a good cron (preferably compatible
> > with vixie cron)?
>
> What's wrong with using vixie cron itself ? Anyhow ...

I'd be curious to know this, too :)

> A search of Debian's packages seems to indicate it uses anacron.

You've got two options with Potato - anacron, and cron. The latter is
Vixie cron, and that's the one I'm using :)  dpkg -l *cron* is your
friend, though you might have to escape the asterisks, depending on your
shell :)

Cheers

R


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