On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 6:35 AM Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, Danilo Spinella wrote:
On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 11:39 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 26/07/2021 11.21, Danilo Spinella wrote:
Any feedback on this change?
openSUSE is moving to systemd timers, AFAIK.
openSUSE will ship systemd timers with the packages but can't remove cronie because a lot of users still use it.
That's not fully correct. On openSUSE Tumbleweed we don't install cronie by default anymore, on other openSUSE projects we even don't ship it anymore. So we are not only able to remove it, we did it already for the first products.
For this reason I think it's good to deprecate run-crons and use a well-maintaned program instead.
It would be better if the last people who use it would switch to systemd-timers instead to invest in deprecated technology ;)
Putting aside the fact people shouldn't be using cron anymore, I'm pretty sure cronie has its own mechanism to run hourly/daily/weekly/monthly jobs. I know that Fedora doesn't use debianutils' run-parts for cron job execution at all, and it also uses cronie as its cron service. Why not just use that? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!