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well, expect our two seperate directories for cron and crontab to go away shortly. Submitted by: jkh
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#/* Copyright 1988,1990,1993 by Paul Vixie
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# * All rights reserved
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# *
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# * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or
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# * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't
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# * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this
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# * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No
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# * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this
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# * software; use at your own risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to
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# * anyone resulting from the use of this software rests entirely with the
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# * user.
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# *
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# * Send bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, flames, etc., and
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# * I'll try to keep a version up to date. I can be reached as follows:
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# * Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> uunet!decwrl!vixie!paul
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# */
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Vixie Cron V3.0
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December 27, 1993
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[V2.2 was some time in 1992]
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[V2.1 was May 29, 1991]
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[V2.0 was July 5, 1990]
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[V2.0-beta was December 9, 1988]
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[V1.0 was May 6, 1987]
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Paul Vixie
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This is a version of 'cron' that is known to run on BSD 4.[23] systems. It
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is functionally based on the SysV cron, which means that each user can have
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their own crontab file (all crontab files are stored in a read-protected
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directory, usually /var/cron/tabs). No direct support is provided for
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'at'; you can continue to run 'atrun' from the crontab as you have been
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doing. If you don't have atrun (i.e., System V) you are in trouble.
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A messages is logged each time a command is executed; also, the files
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"allow" and "deny" in /var/cron can be used to control access to the
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"crontab" command (which installs crontabs). It hasn't been tested on
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SysV, although some effort has gone into making the port an easy one.
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This is more or less the copyright that USENET contributed software usually
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has. Since ATT couldn't use this version if they had to freely distribute
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source, and since I'd love to see them use it, I'll offer some rediculously
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low license fee just to have them take it. In the unlikely event that they
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do this, I will continue to support and distribute the pseudo-PD version, so
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please, don't flame me for wanting my work to see a wider distribution.
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To use this: Sorry, folks, there is no cutesy 'Configure' script. You'll
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have to go edit a couple of files... So, here's the checklist:
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Read all the FEATURES, INSTALL, and CONVERSION files
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Edit config.h
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Edit Makefile
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(both of these files have instructions inside; note that
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some things in config.h are definable in Makefile and are
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therefore surrounded by #ifndef...#endif)
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'make'
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'su' and 'make install'
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(you may have to install the man pages by hand)
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kill your existing cron process
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(actually you can run your existing cron if you want, but why?)
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build new crontabs using /usr/lib/{crontab,crontab.local}
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(either put them all in "root"'s crontab, or divide it up
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and rip out all the 'su' commands, collapse the lengthy
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lists into ranges with steps -- basically, this step is
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as much work as you want to make it)
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start up the new cron
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(must be done as root)
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watch it. test it with 'crontab -r' and watch the daemon track your
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changes.
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if you like it, change your /etc/{rc,rc.local} to use it instead of
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the old one.
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$Id: README,v 2.3 1993/12/28 08:34:43 vixie Exp $
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