Improve cron(8)

[Eitan Adler]

On 13 June 2014 00:04, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> 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.

Tomek,

Could you please file a bug with this patch?  I'll take a look when I
have time, but hopefully someone will get to it first.

Also, can you please generate the patch against HEAD and not 10.0.0?



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Eitan Adler