On 29 Sep 2004 21:36:44 GMT, joostkremers@yahoo.com wrote:

>> Dillon's Cron (and every other cron as far as I can see)
>> seems slightly backward in its abilities.
>>
>> It can't accommodate a one-off task in a following year.
>
> by one-off task, you mean a task that is meant to be run only once? cron
> isn't the right tool for that, you use 'at' instead.

(what Joost said)

Also, dcron has suffered less (if any - can't remember) security
vulnerabilities than Dixie's crond *and* what's more, it has a good
man page with examples where as Dixie's crond does not.
The only thing dcron does not support (iirc) is cron.{allow,deny} but
even when I used to manage shell servers, I never found this to be a
problem.

When ever I have to work out a cron job on a Red Hat box or anything
other than Slackware, I always login to my Slackware box to check
out the examples from dcron's man page.

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