On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 18:11 +0000, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
I wrote a long time ago:
> attached is a patch to persistently save the times of last
> runs. I have baked an RPM and installed it on my system and
> will report in two weeks how reliable it turned out. Com-
> ments and suggestions are - of course - also welcome ear-
> lier :-)
> [...]
Well, I missed the two weeks marker quite a bit, but I have
been using the patched cronie for more than four months now
to my complete satisfaction. I haven't seen any glitches.
Has there been progress on the plan for future develop-
ment?
My biggest problem with your patches is that they are really duplicating
the functionality that's implemented in anacron. It would be much nicer
if cron forwarded the request to run such daily/weekly/monthly jobs to
the anacron. Or - that is another possiblity - we could integrate your
patches and add other functionality that is in anacron and missing in
cron (randomizing job startup times, support for the anacron
configuration format, etc.) into cronie and drop anacron completely from
the cronie codebase. That would be probably even more clean solution but
it requires much more work.
What I could do, is to push your patches into a separate branch on
fedorahosted, but I don't think that we want to merge them into trunk at
this time.
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Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
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