This commit adds two new extensions to crontab, ported from OpenBSD:
- -n: suppress mail on succesful run
- -q: suppress logging of command execution
The -q option appears decades old, but -n is relatively new. The
original proposal by Job Snijder can be found here [1], and gives very
convincing reasons for inclusion in base.
This patch is a nearly identical port of OpenBSD cron for -q and -n
features. It is written to follow existing conventions and style of the
existing codebase.
Example usage:
# should only send email, but won't show up in log
* * * * * -q date
# should not send email
* * * * * -n date
# should not send email or log
* * * * * -n -q date
# should send email because of ping failure
* * * * * -n -q ping -c 1 5.5.5.5
[1]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=152874866117948&w=2
PR: 237538
Submitted by: Naveen Nathan <freebsd_t.lastninja.net>
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20046
Jobs using the @<second> syntax currently only get executed if they exist
when cron is started. The simplest reproducer of this is:
echo '@20 root echo "Hello!"' >> /etc/cron.d/myjob
myjob will get loaded at the next second==0, but this echo job will not
run until cron restarts. These jobs are normally handled in
run_reboot_jobs(), which sets e->lastexit of INTERVAL jobs to the startup
time so they run 'n' seconds later.
Fix this by special-casing TargetTime > 0 in the database load. Preexisting
jobs will be handled at startup during run_reboot_jobs as normal, but if
we've reloaded a database during runtime we'll hit this case and set
e->lastexit to the current time when we process it. They will then run every
'n' seconds from that point, and a full restart of cron is no longer
required to make these jobs work.
Reported by: Juraj Lutter (otis_sk.freebsd.org)
Reviewed by: allanjude, bapt, bjk (earlier version), Juraj Lutter
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19924
This changes the sender mail address in a similar fashion to how MAILTO may
change the recipient. The default from address remains unchanged.
MFC after: 1 week
We no longer need to od these things conditionally, and the fallbacks
are to 4.2BSD era defaults, which nobody uses anymore. Vixie cron has
diverged from upstream anyway in our tree, and it's not clear there's
actually a viable upstream anymore. Plus, we don't follow the
vendor-supplied code pattern here.
I'm doing this to reduce false positives from grep.
given interval, which is counted in seconds since exit of the previous
invocation of the job. Example user crontab entry:
@25 sleep 10
The example will launch 'sleep 10' every 35 seconds. This is a rather
useless example above, but clearly explains the functionality.
The practical goal here is to avoid overlap of previous job invocation
to a new one, or to avoid too short interval(s) for jobs that last long
and doesn't have any point of immediate launch soon after previous run.
Another useful effect of interval jobs can be noticed when a cluster of
machines periodically communicates with a single node. Running the task
time based creates too much load on the node. Running interval based
spreads invocations across machines in cluster. Note that -j/-J won't
help in this case.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Directory mtime will only change if a file is added or removed, not
modified. For /var/cron/tabs, this is fine because of how crontab(1) manages
it using temp files so all crontab(1) changes will trigger a reload of the
database.
For /etc/cron.d and /usr/local/etc/cron.d, this is not necessarily the case.
Instead of checking their mtime, we should descend into them and check mtime
on all jobs also.
Reported by: des
Reviewed by: bapt
MFC after: 1 week
- Document /etc/cron.d and /usr/local/etc/cron.d under FILES.
- Reword documentation for -n: add appropriate soft-stop and remove
contraction to appease igor.
MFC after: 3 days
Add a '-f' option to force crontab '-r' to be non-interactive.
Submitted by: Sam Gwydir <sam at samgwydir.com>
Reviewed by: me, wblock (previous version)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8815
For automation tools it is way easier to maintain files in directories rather
than modifying /etc/crontab.
The files in those directories are in the same format as /etc/crontab
Reviewed by: adrian
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Gandi.net
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8400
Previously cron had its own maximum username length limit, which was
smaller than the system's MAXLOGNAME. This could lead to crontab -u
updating the wrong user's crontab (if the name was truncated, and
matched another user).
PR: 212305
Reported by: Andrii Kuzik
Reviewed by: allanjude, jilles
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7747
This makes it possible to use it with external supervisors.
The "-n" flag name is compatible with Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
Reviewed by: jilles, pfg, wblock
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7581
Set _PATH_DEFPATH to
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin. This is the
path in the default class in the default /etc/login.conf,
excluding ~/bin which would not be expanded properly in a string
constant.
For normal logins, _PATH_DEFPATH is overridden by /etc/login.conf,
~/.login_conf or shell startup files. _PATH_DEFPATH is still used as a
default by execlp(), execvp(), posix_spawnp() and sh if PATH is not set, and
by cron. Especially the latter is a common trap (most recently in PR
204813).
PR: 204813
Reviewed by: secteam (delphij), alfred
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
1. 50+% of NO_PIE use is fixed by adding -fPIC to INTERNALLIB and other
build-only utility libraries.
2. Another 40% is fixed by generating _pic.a variants of various libraries.
3. Some of the NO_PIE use is a bit absurd as it is disabling PIE (and ASLR)
where it never would work anyhow, such as csu or loader. This suggests
there may be better ways of adding support to the tree. Many of these
cases can be fixed such that -fPIE will work but there is really no
reason to have it in those cases.
4. Some of the uses are working around hacks done to some Makefiles that are
really building libraries but have been using bsd.prog.mk because the code
is cleaner. Had they been using bsd.lib.mk then NO_PIE would not have
been needed.
We likely do want to enable PIE by default (opt-out) for non-tree consumers
(such as ports). For in-tree though we probably want to only enable PIE
(opt-in) for common attack targets such as remote service daemons and setuid
utilities. This is also a great performance compromise since ASLR is expected
to reduce performance. As such it does not make sense to enable it in all
utilities such as ls(1) that have little benefit to having it enabled.
Reported by: kib
null terminate.
Temporarily use "From: $user@$hostname" rather than "From: $user".
The latter exposes incompatible behavior if using dma(8). sendmail(8)
(and other alternatives) canonify either form on submission (even
if masquerading), but dma will leak a non-compliant address to
the internet.
This is currently an opt-in build flag. Once ASLR support is ready and stable
it should changed to opt-out and be enabled by default along with ASLR.
Each application Makefile uses opt-out to ensure that ASLR will be enabled by
default in new directories when the system is compiled with PIE/ASLR. [2]
Mark known build failures as NO_PIE for now.
The only known runtime failure was rtld.
[1] http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/452.en.html
Submitted by: Shawn Webb <lattera@gmail.com>
Discussed between: des@ and Shawn Webb [2]
which cause EINVAL returned from nanosleep() which cause loop in
cron_sleep() and making all cron jobs to start about 30 seconds earlier
(which cause f.e. logfiles rotation by newsyslog delayed by 1 hour).
Use simple and proved calculations from kernel's timespecsub() instead.
MFC after: 3 days
requests, default to the previous 60-seconds scheduling method
unless there is any @every_second entries to conserve CPU cycles and
power.
This change also improves scheduling in the default mode by running
as close to the beginning of the minnute as possible by replacing
sleep(3) with nanosleep(2). Previously, the tasks would run anywhere
within the first second of the minute and that offset drifted back
and forth each time cron(8) was engaged.
MFC after: 1 month
not multiple of 1 second, which results in actual time to drift back
and forth every run within 1 second of the actual action has
been set for.
Suggested by: Ian Lepore
o Schedule the first run in 1 second after starting up, not on the
boundary of the next minute, which results in the every_second jobs
not being run.
