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

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm guessing it doesn't do the load-average sensing that vixie-cron does, and
probably doesn't automatically background/daemonize itself, either?

Does it take any commandline options/arguments?

Charles
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