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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36430: mcron would benefit from a better way to test jobs
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:26:44 +0200
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To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Cc: rob@vllmrt.net, 36430@debbugs.gnu.org

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=E2=80=99s definitely lacking useful features, as R=
obert
reported, but apart from that it seems to work well for me.

I=E2=80=99d encourage you to report any issues you have to bug-mcron@gnu.or=
g.
Overall, I agree that we should work to make it more pleasant to work
with!

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.