Improve cron(8)

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 2014-06-23 18:53, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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?

The /etc/rc.d/cron already allows for command_path specification.
So als long as the 2 versions have different nameing, selection is easy.

-_WjW