[packages/dcron] mention difference with vixie cron
glen
glen at pld-linux.org
Sat Oct 26 14:19:25 CEST 2013
commit baccd64a0967a9896df899f9f1be1f8ba440ad2b
Author: Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee>
Date: Sat Oct 26 15:18:59 2013 +0300
mention difference with vixie cron
from gentoo wiki
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron
dcron.spec | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/dcron.spec b/dcron.spec
index b3fd4dc..bad8d65 100644
--- a/dcron.spec
+++ b/dcron.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ This lightweight cron daemon aims to be simple and secure, with just
enough features to stay useful. It was written from scratch by Matt
Dillon in 1994. It's now developed and maintained by Jim Pryor.
+Dcron aims to be a simple, elegant and secure implementation of cron.
+It does not allow the specification of environment variables in
+crontabs and all cron-jobs are run from /bin/sh . Like Vixie cron,
+each user has his own crontab.
+
In the author's opinion, having to combine a cron daemon with another
daemon like anacron makes for too much complexity. So the goal is a
simple cron daemon that can also take over the central functions of
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