updating cron and atrun

[Gordon Bergling]

Hi Josh,

did you had the time to setup a code repository where we can have a look at the progress you made? You did a fairly detailed analysis of the current „CRON-situation“ and I hope you will make a step further on this.

Kind regards,

Gordon

> Am 07.02.2020 um 15:19 schrieb Josh Aas <josh at kflag.net>:
> 
> I was looking for a way to contribute to FreeBSD and I decided to look
> into the cron/atrun project listed on this page:
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#Improve_cron.288.29_and_atrun.288.29
> 
> I looked into the current code, commits from the past decade, and the
> lineage of other versions of cron to see if there is a reasonable plan
> for updating FreeBSD’s cron based on another version. It doesn't seem
> like there are any particularly productive new path to take here. ISC
> cron is old and unmaintained, and I don’t think NetBSD or OpenBSD cron
> is interesting enough to be worth entirely rebasing on. On top of
> that, FreeBSD cron seems to have some FreeBSD-specific functionality
> that we’d still need to maintain or “upstream” elsewhere.
> 
> I’d recommend continuing with the current status quo - keep FreeBSD’s
> version of cron and occasionally pull in security/stability patches as
> applicable from OpenBSD or NetBSD. The other options are a lot of work
> for little (if any) gain. Happy to hear other opinions though.
> 
> Integrating atrun into cron might be nice but isn’t very interesting
> IMO. Seems very possible that the cost of that churn outweighs the
> benefit. I’d love to hear more about why this is a particularly good
> idea if people believe it is. Maybe I’m missing something.
> 
> If people agree I’d recommend removing the cron and atrun suggestion
> on the Ideas Page. Maintaining that page seems like a pain though,
> might I recommend keeping track of these ideas as bugzilla bugs,
> tagged with something like “ideaslist”? Then you can just link to that
> search.
> 
> -- 
> Josh Aas
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