use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Marcela Maslanova mmaslano at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 08:18:23 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:05:30PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 20:59 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> 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.
>> What are the deplists comparatively?
> 
> fcron has additionally 
>  vim-minimal  
> But I think that this is also a cronie dep that is missing (I think
> /usr/bin/crontab defaults to use it).
cronie isn't missing vim. It uses default text editor.
> 
> fcron also uses /usr/bin/setsid. I don't think this is annoying, and to
> avoid it trivial C code could be used.
> 
>> Has fcron had a security audit recently?
> 
> What exactly do you mean here? Are you referring to an audit done by
> some specific people, or using some methodology? Or a security audit in
> a vague sense?
> 
> --
> Pat
> 


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