Why the conflict between fcron & hc-cron???

[Terry Chan]

Exim DOES use fcron.  See the CONFIGURE and DEPENDS script.  Exim can use EITHER
fcron or hc-cron.  There is no conflict in exim with fcron nor hc-cron.

The CONFLICT is between hc-cron and fcron in /etc/init.d/

Both modules try to install /etc/init.d/crond and this is probably another
unix-ism that no one wanted to fix by changing the cron daemon name for one
module or the other.

Terry Chan
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:41:33PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> exim:  Adding required dependency hc-cron 
> + mod_v="" mod="hc-cron"
> WARNING: fcron conflicts with module hc-cron
> hc-cron:  Do you want to remove module fcron ?  [n] 
> 
> 1) Why this conflict? (I use hc-cron & fcron on the same systems for several
>  reasons, ie. somethings are done easier by hc-cron, but others better by fcron)
> 
> 2) Why can't exim use fcron? (I use it quite successfully with fcron, and I
>  prefer fcron to hc-cron in this regard)
> 
> HEndrik