Re: [Sheflug] suggestions for a cron daemon

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 9:44 am, Chris J wrote:

> Btw, just found Cron 4.0 beta 1, file has datestamp of 03/04/2000. Dates
> inside file point to 17 September 1997. This is named "ISC Cron", but is
> based heavily on vixie cron.
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron

ISC distribute bind, which Paul Vixie is still involved in, so I would not be 
suprised if "ISC Cron" is the successor to vixie cron.

IMO cron sucks in some pretty basic ways, and I think that's why there is 
little development on new crons these days...
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