Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:30:22 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: About ISC-cron Message-ID: <20040717183022.GA64172@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040717153016.GA3805@frontfree.net> References: <20040717153016.GA3805@frontfree.net>
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--82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:30:16PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Hi folks, >=20 > I have did a preliminary work on ISC-cron 4.1 for FreeBSD. I have noticed > that: > - Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have cron and friends based on cron 3.0 > with some respective local modifications. > - OpenBSD has adopted ISC cron 4.0b1 in early 2001. After that, > they have did several security and stablity related improvements > that IMO is valuable for us, too. > - There are some minor bugs in FreeBSD's cron that should be > fixed. (e.g. having */0 in crontab will cause a local DoS, > crontab does not remove temp files when it is abnormally > terminated, etc.) >=20 > I have Google'd the mailing list and found no discussion explaining why > we have not upgraded our cron and friends. Is there any discussion I > have missed? In other words, should I make these work a port, or a diff > against src/, when I have finished the whole thing? About the only reason in favour of keeping cron 3.0 would be if there are compatibility issues. However this is still a weak reason since this is 5.x-CURRENT. I think upgrading cron in src sounds like a good idea. Kris --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA+XA+Wry0BWjoQKURAq8CAKDUa6b2PvS9D301rYph77bupHbWEQCglgC1 QYKmTS0CwgHgw5DO/imwE0k= =ieGQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--
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