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

Tue Aug 10 03:10:27 GMT 2004

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:54:57PM -0500, Terry Chan wrote:
> 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.

... or rather.. the reason I left the developers

*sigh*

Hendrik