Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:04:30 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Tomek_Wa=C5=82aszek?= <tmwalaszek@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) Message-ID: <CAF6rxgmSL3kfh0Tt2Nw3Kh1hAe3HCdspvkKCTifLnU5QxP-f7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN3T69vCQTb1hU%2BAUKg%2BKLgsuCttLxYS6u2r9k3w5LM2D4zZoA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN3T69vCQTb1hU%2BAUKg%2BKLgsuCttLxYS6u2r9k3w5LM2D4zZoA@mail.gmail.com>
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+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 cr= on > 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 remo= ve > '-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 looks > 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 a= nd > 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= " --=20 Eitan Adler
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