Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, as cron is not broken, works fine and is understood, and the distro will keep having it available for people that prefer it, what need do we have to migrate the system cron jobs to systemd? What benefit do we obtain?
If you think about single purpose operating systems, it would make absolutly sense to migrate anything to systemd timer and drop cron. Like we currently do for SUSE CaaS Platform.
But for a multi-purpose OS, it doesn't make any sense, because you still need the cron service.
Even in the generic case it doesn't matter what daemon actually runs /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}. As long as the scripts are run as expected nobody should care whether it's cron or systemd. So we could easily get rid of cron in a minimal install at least. The shell script that wakes up every 15 minutes just to find out that there's nothing to do deserves to be reworked after 19 years of service :-) cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org