Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 15:18:08 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Tomek_Wa=C5=82aszek?= <tmwalaszek@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) Message-ID: <CAF6rxgm6sG5i1u1PT3K_y-%2BDnpn-coqCMwZAfGJjFcakEtEkSg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmSL3kfh0Tt2Nw3Kh1hAe3HCdspvkKCTifLnU5QxP-f7A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN3T69vCQTb1hU%2BAUKg%2BKLgsuCttLxYS6u2r9k3w5LM2D4zZoA@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgmSL3kfh0Tt2Nw3Kh1hAe3HCdspvkKCTifLnU5QxP-f7A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13 June 2014 00:04, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > +arch since hackers@ seems to be silent. > > On 11 June 2014 23:56, Tomek Wa=C5=82aszek <tmwalaszek@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 c= ron >> 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 rem= ove >> '-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? --=20 Eitan Adler
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