>I just don't want cron doing randomized delay and repeats. That should functionally be determined by the application. I think it's perfectly fine that timer d

>I just don't want cron doing randomized delay and repeats. That should functionally be determined by the application. I think it's perfectly fine that timer does this, it's useful. The applications I run don't support this behaviour out of the box, so why should I have to code up something for each app? >There's little functional difference between syntax and options in this case, There is an important difference. The manpage on timers spends most words explaining what exactly each option does and how it can be useful while most of the crontab manpage explains how the syntax works, the options crontab provides are minimal.