Dan Nicholson wrote: > Fedora has an updated Vixie cron that integrates all the RH patches. > https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/ Very good. I'll try the cronie-1.1 then.
But first I'd like to try fcron. In fact I'd like to try something else before that. This may seem rediculous but I thought dcron looked cute so I started looking at it last night and got it to compile just a while ago. I used the source listed in this hint: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/dcron.txt I did not use the patch because the link he shows is defunct. I did find another patch at: http://www.callweaver.org/browse/pblx/trunk/ports/base/dcron/dcron-2.3.3.patch?rev=308 ...but I didn't think it would be a good idea to use. I gave it a go anyhow without the patch and I found that it only needed a couple of functions renamed to avoid conflicts with my gcc libraries to compile ok. Other than that I don't know what other potential problems may need to be fixed. The files produced look like this: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 10036 Jun 10 19:24 /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4120 Jun 10 19:24 /usr/man/man1/crontab.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3075 Jun 10 19:24 /usr/man/man8/crond.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13232 Jun 10 19:24 /usr/sbin/crond So far it seems to work fine. Do think it is too risky to use? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
