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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Cc: rob@vllmrt.net, 36430@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36430: mcron would benefit from a better way to test jobs
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:26:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e8tapjv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190629144536.590b1b7f@gmail.com> (Jesse Gibbons's message of "Sat, 29 Jun 2019 14:45:54 -0600")

Hi Jesse,

Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> skribis:

> mcron is super buggy in my experience. If I power my laptop off
> overnight it will skip all jobs scheduled for the day of the month,
> even if they are scheduled for after I power it back on. And it doesn't
> have a way to easily schedule for a given day of the week.

Buggy in what sense?  It’s definitely lacking useful features, as Robert
reported, but apart from that it seems to work well for me.

I’d encourage you to report any issues you have to bug-mcron@gnu.org.
Overall, I agree that we should work to make it more pleasant to work
with!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-07 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-29  6:37 bug#36430: mcron would benefit from a better way to test jobs Robert Vollmert
2019-06-29 20:45 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-07-07 14:26   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-07-07 14:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-08  7:18   ` Robert Vollmert
2019-07-08  9:54     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-08 11:58       ` Robert Vollmert
2019-07-11 15:36         ` Ludovic Courtès

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