RPM is not the only one
RPM is not the only one
Posted Aug 24, 2006 19:22 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111)In reply to: RPM is not the only one by job
Parent article: Who maintains RPM?
Unfortunately, neither is a drop-in replacement for Vixie cron. There's just too much history behind vixie cron to replace it with anything that doesn't support all the weird variations of crontab syntax. (Obviously, I'm talking about the general case, done on a distribution level. Individual sysadmins can do what they want, and that's fine.)
What should really happen is to develop a cron-like system with equivalent capabilities but a sane syntax, the ability to control things like "what happens when a jobbed is skipped" or "what if the previous invocation is still running", etc. etc. etc. Instead of reading crontabs, write a converter . It can fail on the corner cases so long as it tells you it's done so.
Posted Aug 25, 2006 15:57 UTC (Fri)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted Aug 31, 2006 19:50 UTC (Thu)
by vmole (guest, #111)
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But the screaming that occurred when somebody noticed! It was suddenly ABSOLUTELY VITAL and we COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!
But I'm not bitter.
Steve, former Debian cron maintainer.
Posted Aug 30, 2016 17:16 UTC (Tue)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Is that called systemd?
(lighting blue touch paper and retiring at full speed to a safe distance ... :-)
Cheers,
Many of those weird variations are hardly ever used. @reboot (I think it is) was broken in Debian cron for *years* before anyone reported it...RPM is not the only one
RPM is not the only one
RPM is not the only one
Wol