use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Dec 9 18:01:11 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:

>> Because this kind of dependencies (features which do not belong to
>> package's core functionality) are always bad.  Cron can be used
>> completely without any kind of editor; e.g. when jobs are installed
>> by cfengine.
>
> It works just fine until you try to use the functionality that looks up
> $EDITOR, finds none and tries to fall back to vi, and doesn't find it
> and crashes.

Crashing is a bug; a message that $EDITOR should be set and/or 'vi' be
installed a proper behavior.


Enrico




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