From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:11:51 +0000 From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <39731A76.C2743CF2@arl.army.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200007162254.SAA13583@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] allow Topicbox-Message-UUID: dfa9f8ac-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Cron in such a system becomes much harder. The cron process has to > possess some of my private keys in order to do it's job. I don't see that -- surely a "user" could fire up its own cron-ish process to perform scheduled tasks. Why does there have to be a centralized "cron"?