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Date:      Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:00:21 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Tomek_Wa=C5=82aszek?= <tmwalaszek@gmail.com>, johnandsara2@cox.net, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Improve cron(8)
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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@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On 22 June 2014 11:54, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
> <johnandsara2@cox.net> wrote:
>> Eitan Adler 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
>>>> 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 unfortunatel=
y
>>>> 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 loo=
ks
>>>> 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 thi=
s
>>>> 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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