Saturday, September 20, 2008

Cron to be deprecated in favor of Upstart in Ubuntu

Ubuntu's Upstart is an init daemon replacement, quite analagous to OS X's launchd. Launchd also replaced cron on OS X - and upstart plans to replace cron on Ubuntu. No telling when, but all my cron jobs will need to be reformatted.

Update: Sept 2011. Three years later and still waiting...

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