Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:15:57 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: johnandsara2@cox.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Tomek_Wa=C5=82aszek?= <tmwalaszek@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkZSXM5_UtKobvSH3wivPjcSynDBt5DsymqJdB3d83Q0w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53A72666.8090101@cox.net> References: <CAN3T69vCQTb1hU%2BAUKg%2BKLgsuCttLxYS6u2r9k3w5LM2D4zZoA@mail.gmail.com> <53A72666.8090101@cox.net>
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On 22 June 2014 11:54, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell <johnandsara2@cox.net> wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> +arch since hackers@ seems to be silent. >> >> On 11 June 2014 23:56, Tomek Wa=C5=82aszek <tmwalaszek@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> I saw on the FreeBSD Ideas page topic about cron :). >>> I've started updating the 'original' FreeBSD cron from sources to vixi >>> cron >>> 4.1. I think (well I hope :P) most of the features that were done in >>> FreeBSD cron are now ported into vixi cron 4.1, there are unfortunately >>> some missing features at the moment: >>> - @every_second - this need to be done >>> - -s and -o, in vixi cron 4.1 daylight time switches are enabled by >>> default, at the moment there is no -s and -o options. So you need to >>> remove >>> '-s' from the cron rc script >>> >>> I've also added one feature from OpenBSD, crontab is poking cron using >>> unix-domain socket so we don't need to have suid on crontab. >>> >>> Path is in the attachment. I'm testing it on my FreeBSD box and it look= s >>> good but anyway don't try it on production machines :). >>> >>> After the installation we have to do a few things: >>> - Add crontab group >>> - Change group to crontab on /var/cron/tabs >>> - Add sticky bit on /var/cron/tabs >>> - Add group write permissions on /var/cron/tabs >>> >>> This is still work in progress but if someone could have a look on this >>> and >>> give me some feedback it would be great. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tomasz Walaszek >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> >> > > you should up the version number or start your own renamed application ... I don't know how to react to this message. You just told a potential contributor not to contribute since he was not the founder of the project. That goes against everything that open source is about. --=20 Eitan Adler
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