Improve cron(8)

[Eitan Adler]

On 22 June 2014 11:54, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
<johnandsara2 at cox.net> wrote:
> 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
...

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.


-- 
Eitan Adler