Improve cron(8)

[Warner Losh]

Yea, The Paul Vixie I know never would be a lot nicer about it.

The version number and name are the least of our worries here.

Warner

On Jun 22, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Actually, I know how to react to that.
> 
> Don't dissuade someone from contributing. Discuss the changes and
> whether they're positive or negative.
> 
> -a
> 
> 
> On 22 June 2014 15:15, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> 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
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