Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:06:03 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) Message-ID: <53A87A9B.8060201@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgk8_z8CFNyC6MDSdpnX1VAxwJ5xbFL3zY4kVw283ozfbA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN3T69vCQTb1hU%2BAUKg%2BKLgsuCttLxYS6u2r9k3w5LM2D4zZoA@mail.gmail.com> <53A72666.8090101@cox.net> <53A78C13.8030909@freebsd.org> <53A82008.9050002@digiware.nl> <CAF6rxgk8_z8CFNyC6MDSdpnX1VAxwJ5xbFL3zY4kVw283ozfbA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/23/14, 11:28 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 June 2014 05:39, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote: >> On 2014-06-23 4:08, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> On 6/22/14 11:54 AM, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: >>>> Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>> +arch since hackers@ seems to be silent. >>>>> >>>>> On 11 June 2014 23:56, Tomek Wałaszek <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 >>>>>> 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 and >>>>>> give me some feedback it would be great. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Tomasz Walaszek >> >> >>>> you should up the version number or start your own renamed application >> >>> Tomek, please don't let messages like this dissuade you from >>> participating. Please do continue this work, it seems very promising. >>> Thank you! >>> >>> I was myself looking forward to having these additions. Very cool. >> >> Hi Tomek, >> >> One of the things I like in some of the other cron's is the possibility to >> add files to something like: /var/cron.d. >> This as contract to /var/cron/tabs, where files need to <username> and are >> executed under that users privilidges. >> >> Reason that this would be convenient is that tools like puppet don't need to >> start editing files to remove crontab lines. Which IMHO is always more hairy >> then just adding/deleting/updating a file called: >> /var/cron.d/tool-ABC.cron > This is absolutely useful and has existed in every large scale > envrionment I know of. Agreed, it would be a huge step forward for FreeBSD.
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