enough features to stay useful. It was written from scratch by Matt
Dillon in 1994. It's now developed and maintained by Jim Pryor.
+Dcron aims to be a simple, elegant and secure implementation of cron.
+It does not allow the specification of environment variables in
+crontabs and all cron-jobs are run from /bin/sh . Like Vixie cron,
+each user has his own crontab.
+
In the author's opinion, having to combine a cron daemon with another
daemon like anacron makes for too much complexity. So the goal is a
simple cron daemon that can also take over the central functions of