Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:10:27 -0400 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d/cron appears to ignore rcvar "cron_program" -- intentional? Message-ID: <20120906171027.GC1332@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <20120906170101.GV1486@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20120906170101.GV1486@albert.catwhisker.org>
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--hoZxPH4CaxYzWscb Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="iFRdW5/EC4oqxDHL" Content-Disposition: inline --iFRdW5/EC4oqxDHL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi David, On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:01:01AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > I was poking around to see if I could find a reasonable way to set the > UNAME_r environment variable for an instance of cron(8) running in a > jail (so that cron-initiated tasks could automagically inherit the > value, without requiring that every crontab instance within the > jail specify it), and I started to think about ways to coerce the > cron_program variable from /etc/defaults/rc.conf: >=20 > d134(8.3-S)[2] grep cron defaults/rc.conf=20 > cron_enable=3D"YES" # Run the periodic job daemon. > cron_program=3D"/usr/sbin/cron" # Which cron executable to run (if enab= led). > cron_dst=3D"YES" # Handle DST transitions intelligently (YES/NO) > cron_flags=3D"" # Which options to pass to the cron daemon. > entropy_dir=3D"/var/db/entropy" # Set to NO to disable caching entropy vi= a cron. > d134(8.3-S)[3]=20 >=20 > to set the environment variable. >=20 > But inspection of rc.d/cron shows: >=20 > d134(8.3-S)[6] grep cron_program rc.d/cron ; echo $? > 1 Can you please try the attached patch? Glen --iFRdW5/EC4oqxDHL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cron-rc.diff.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Index: etc/rc.d/cron =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --- etc/rc.d/cron (revision 240152) +++ etc/rc.d/cron (working copy) @@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ =20 name=3D"cron" rcvar=3D"cron_enable" -command=3D"/usr/sbin/${name}" pidfile=3D"/var/run/${name}.pid" =20 load_rc_config $name +command=3D${cron_program:-/usr/sbin/${name}} + if checkyesno cron_dst then cron_flags=3D"$cron_flags -s" --iFRdW5/EC4oqxDHL-- --hoZxPH4CaxYzWscb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQSNkDAAoJEFJPDDeguUajh3oIALJPSr81aMjStLcgGPICgXDU 12IQuWVVqXS2Nrtlu+opuC9l4TT0DR2sWHjyG0ERkz7Cn9n74ms/wnDryp1qUtUw InS8MepoBZ0YZ08MIRaA+e1Zx1acEnhqoRZb+/7m33XPaEvLiKWQvMdSNe59TSL9 zVb5eONWO5BvBfW7OXHhiXxcP+H32N/uZQpCoCi2HWF8gTdQm3/6udLC84fUsNzO +R8UxFLUkoBcLpkjuHHt+gfhFOCmDX+LcmvtXqm5aPCKIV8t/GRSarH+dOTLsrlJ GTmOFnzMiiLVn9ok7Z/BeezMfa3QvmJ6ynqV0ab9RpklorBAg9dGKXmg3Rj1ghA= =IRuy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hoZxPH4CaxYzWscb--
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