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Would you not consider cron to be 'general knowledge' in the Hacker News community?
by suprfnk 8y ago
Would you not consider cron to be 'general knowledge' in the Hacker News community?
- s3m4j 8y agoI would, but I also would like to know in what way is it different from vixie cron and what impact does it have on the user ?
- rbanffy 8y agoIt says exactly that. It's written in Guile (which is inconsequential until it reaches the second part) and can take Scheme code as configuration file (which is very interesting).
- s3m4j 8y agoI read that, but to the end user, that's not really a plus if the "old" syntax works the same. How does mcron's working differ from cron's ? That's what should be on the front page, not the language its written in.
- jimnotgym 8y agoOh yes I would, but since when was this website only available to the HN community? It is full of mysterious pages like this...hardly making free software accessible. It certainly isn't likely to make me question the choice I made to use the cron that my distro came with.