Re: [Sheflug] suggestions for a cron daemon

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Andrew Basterfield" uttered these words of
wisdom...
>> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Chris J wrote:
>> > What's wrong with using vixie cron itself ? Anyhow ...
>
> Because it's ancient...

Well it's still heavily used by some dists. Ancient does not mean bad. Plus
there's only so much a person can do to cron...it will reach a point where
it can't be improved :-)
> Vixie cron 3.0p1 it is then. I had some difficulty tracking down the
> source but amazingly with only some minor modifications it compiles and
> appears to work.
>

Dont know where you grabbed your source from, but for future reference (for
everyone):
http://www.vix.com/

Latest version is dated Jan 16 1994, looking at the shar files. Note there
may be security issues with it ... search advisories at security focus and
at cert :)
Chris...

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