From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 22:16:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF651EB8 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x233.google.com (mail-qa0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 780032B15 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id j7so4924766qaq.24 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:16:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qqlr/IbyP0iJjES3fu5K76tw8XCPcwuTBLXZozCqw9Q=; b=g935Y+ELYfDoTtAq7onZIp02rGd2cFF8PD7kOoxJ1vEVSyJCbdoyXFi/RfIoJ002IT 7bQEaoFGyB9unOpp5Vk7FSJd4/NTmSyx9xqSaxG3BQNCjBrNedpvdCFQEz4OFR7DwwAz puJOJ3vYwrHXKFpJ8rRzrFakZSuy+BgqaC9w8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qqlr/IbyP0iJjES3fu5K76tw8XCPcwuTBLXZozCqw9Q=; b=bsrtytulXKZq0Y6bUA/3YWf5M6uwToxDZiZ8J/wHKaCQRajk3nIzJoGExXYQeq2I0f C/pPG+QeLS4bsMiFw86ZmsvsOU1F70iWoG2BRgvmbeD9O2sdqhOtx0cggpQjCbLZ1DzA n+fZXziBMSaB82pGuyzri6LBE8eAkytEurx/kk87U88GYw1Y4GWIpauQV86QqcbW5v6o V0XPE7y/7G+3D5+vZdF1oMg8Eed7BGE7uhi5Tg3PlP1nRE2ETyygCbTVP277Kj1LYkHr +9ZknDt9ZlSiC98hDv9cCWPEquKQzvYpcvOxTxol/x65B5+gg2JCxY8VO4FDW1eXCh8d e9kQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnDMk+r13B9YF96ul662yt2S7+kmbT4u34UnVrbmPjef8XvMXtAlabijra7J+Ec3EzY7/hu X-Received: by 10.224.7.6 with SMTP id b6mr27141563qab.45.1403475387608; Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:16:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.222.131 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:15:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53A72666.8090101@cox.net> References: <53A72666.8090101@cox.net> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:15:57 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) To: johnandsara2@cox.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Tomek_Wa=C5=82aszek?= , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:16:28 -0000 On 22 June 2014 11:54, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> +arch since hackers@ seems to be silent. >> >> On 11 June 2014 23:56, Tomek Wa=C5=82aszek 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