cron behavior

[willg at bluesock.org (will)]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, John Abreau wrote:
> 
> If you replace cron, or "fix" the "broken" behavior, anything you
> write that depends on the new behavior will be inherently unportable;
> it will break on every other Unix box that hasn't been similarly
> modified. You also risk breaking anything that depends on the old
> behavior, though in this case I don't imagine that's very likely.

I was thinking "cron substitute" like qmail and exim are "sendmail
substitutes".  I didn't mean to imply patching Cron.  I know of anacron
(which isn't really a cron substitute), but I was wondering if there were
others.


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