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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] generic CRON provider
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:32:34 +0200

Hi all,

I'd like to have some input about the idea i wrote in bug #6848 [1], and
possibly one of our gurus implementing it because I'm a bit busy
currently :)

Here's the basic idea so you don't have to go to the bug if you don't
care about this ;)
- add a new init facility 'cron' and have all different cron providers
provide that
- add a SCHEDULER or CRON provides to all cron providers
- optional_depend on SCHEDULER/CRON in exim and do the choice of crontab
format in POST_INSTALL based on the value of the init facility 'cron',
i.e. base it on what cron is actually used, with a default of doing
nothing except issue a warning when the user uses an unknown cron
implementation

The problem this is trying to solve is that the exim spell depends on
some cron implementation while it works fine without any cron, and that
exim does crontab editing based on which cron is used.

[1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6848

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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