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<sect1 id="changes">
<title>Changes</title>
<para>It results on a much better HTML version, which I recommand you use. It is installed by default in fcron documentation directory (for instance, on my system : <filename>/usr/share/doc/fcron-X.X.X/</filename>).</para>
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- <para>Added option random, which allows an entry run periodically to be run at a random time in its intervals of execution, instead of being run as soon as possible</para>
+ <para>Added option random, which allows an entry run periodically to be run at a random time in its intervals of execution, instead of being run as soon as possible.</para>
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+ <listitem>
+ <para>bug fixed : you can now use arguments in the var EDITOR and VISUAL.</para>
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<sect1 id="todo">
<title>Todo</title>
<para>allow a non-privileged user to run fcron</para>
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- <para>add a "random" option to %-lines, to change policy from : "run as soon as possible" to "set a random time to sleep before execing asap" (and then run - if the system hasn't gone down ...)/</para>
+ <para>add a "random" option to %-lines, to change policy from : "run as soon as possible" to "set a random time to sleep before execing asap" (and then run - if the system hasn't gone down ...).</para>
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+ <listitem>
+ <para>add a return code for jobs which would mean that they should not be run again (in case of an error, etc...).</para>
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<para>possibility to display a list of jobs including their options, time and date of next execution, status, of only the running jobs, all the jobs, in order of execution or classified by user, etc.</para>
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<para>run one of this job, change its nice value, stop it...</para>
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+ <listitem>
+ <para>add a system of modules : at startup, fcron loads some modules
+ (.so files). Then, when fcron should run the job, it calls a function
+ of the module, and let it manage the job (threads ?). (do linux
+ dlopen(), etc exist on other systems ?).</para>
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<para>add a system of data flow</para>
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