Improve cron(8)

[Adrian Chadd]

On 23 June 2014 06:26, Tomek Wałaszek <tmwalaszek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I got your point.
> From the technical perspective it should be quite easy to implement this
> feature, but I'm not sure whether this will get positive feedback. I
> remeber that there was a discussion on the OpenBSD mailing lists (there was
> even a patch for this) but they don't like the idea :) maybe FreeBSD
> project will like it, I don't know.
>
> At the moment I want to update FreeBSD cron to ISC cron (with all the
> features that FreeBSD has at the moment and ISC does not have) and
> integrate atrun into cron like it was done in OpenBSD cron. After that (or
> faster who knows :)) maybe we should have a discussion about this idea.

Sweet!

Well, hm. How should we do it? Can we run both cron's in the same
source tree and just pick which to build/install? They're both
different crons, right? Or is there a common ancestor that makes the
diff not so terrible?


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