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Subject: Re: mcron or mcron2?
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:02:48AM -0600, Caleb Herbert wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-11-23 at 10:01 -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> > The GuixSD mcron service uses mcron2, so I think that is probably the
>> > best one :)
>>=20
>> Which is more likely to work on a foreign distro?  (Trisquel.)
>
> I'm not sure, because I haven't tried using it in that context.

Both should work, but mcron2 has various improvements over mcron that
for a time were not merged in mcron proper (might have changed.)

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