About ISC-cron

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:30:16PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have did a preliminary work on ISC-cron 4.1 for FreeBSD. I have noticed
> that:
> 	- Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have cron and friends based on cron 3.0
> 	  with some respective local modifications.
> 	- OpenBSD has adopted ISC cron 4.0b1 in early 2001. After that,
> 	  they have did several security and stablity related improvements
> 	  that IMO is valuable for us, too.
> 	- There are some minor bugs in FreeBSD's cron that should be
> 	  fixed. (e.g. having */0 in crontab will cause a local DoS,
> 	  crontab does not remove temp files when it is abnormally
> 	  terminated, etc.)
> 
> I have Google'd the mailing list and found no discussion explaining why
> we have not upgraded our cron and friends. Is there any discussion I
> have missed? In other words, should I make these work a port, or a diff
> against src/, when I have finished the whole thing?

About the only reason in favour of keeping cron 3.0 would be if there
are compatibility issues.  However this is still a weak reason since
this is 5.x-CURRENT.

I think upgrading cron in src sounds like a good idea.

Kris
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