Re: Re: OT: flaws in vixie-cron? (Was: Design of yet another cron system)

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:12:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Though that shouldn't be an issue, if the other cron is GPL'd.

The most useful crontab.5 man page (and closest in terms of features) is
from vixie-cron, which is BSD licensed IIRC.

> I may be able to spare a couple of hours to write a man page.  Do you have a
> point-form list of the differences that must be documented?

It is basically the same as what has become standard for vixie-cron
(with the "user" column in /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/*), but with no
special "@" features that some patches add.  That includes ranges and
steps in all the time fields, as well as month and weekday names.  Oh,
and using "%" for feeding data into the command's stdin doesn't work
neither.
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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/
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