fcron as a cron replacement

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Jens Petersen wrote:

>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:40:30 +0900
>From: Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>
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>List-Id: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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>Subject: Re: fcron as a cron replacement
>
>>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
>
>    Bill> Jens Petersen (petersen at 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.
>
>    Bill> It would be *really nice* if this was commandline
>    Bill> and configuration file compatible with cron. :(
>
>Right.  Well another possibility is perhaps to add fcron to
>Fedora Core as an alternative to vixie-cron?

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

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat