Improve cron(8)

[John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell]

Eitan Adler wrote:
> +arch since hackers@ seems to be silent.
> 
> On 11 June 2014 23:56, Tomek Wałaszek <tmwalaszek at 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
>>
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you should up the version number or start your own renamed application

a person claiming to be paul vixie of cron is still living (doesn't 
look old enough to be a vax hacker?).  your not paul vixie.

people who use vixie cron don't want a "distro hacked" one.

also there are many cron replacements with frills features already for 
people to dl and use.

i don't know of any serious bug fixes to cron.  it simple (well not 
for paul to write it but) and anyone still using cron likely uses it 
because it is simple and un-tampered with

thanks but please leave very basic apps "cron, ls, sed, mail" so they 
are not a compatibility problem - because many systems or softwares 
rely on them like , say, they rely on awk