use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Joe Nall joe at nall.com
Fri Dec 5 20:07:40 UTC 2008


On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think that fcron should be the default scheduler in fedora.
> fcron, with the service fcron_watch_config activated should now be
> 100% compatible with vixie-cron (cronie). The fcron_watch_config stuff
> is a bit convoluted (3 scripts and one C program...) but should work.
>
> The advantages over cronie are the following:
> * it also does what anacron does
> * it has more features
> * instead of waking up every minutes to look at config files, like
>  cronie do, it uses inotify to watch the config. This should lead to
>  less awaking and certainly be interesting for power saving in some
>  situations
>
> I won't push this more, somebody else has to volunteer to make this
> happen. I think it could be done in F11 and it should be a feature.

Does fcron have the selinux context support that was added to cronie?

joe





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