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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 1993,1994 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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$Id: INSTALL,v 2.5 1994/01/15 20:43:43 vixie Exp $
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Read the comments at the top of the Makefile, then edit the area marked
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'configurable stuff'.
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Edit config.h. The stuff I expect you to change is down a bit from the
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top of the file, but it's clearly marked. Also look at pathnames.h.
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You don't have to create the /var/cron or /var/cron/tabs directories, since
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both the daemon and the `crontab' program will do this the first time they
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run if they don't exist. You do need to have a /var, though -- just "mkdir
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/var" if you don't have one, or you can "mkdir /usr/var; ln -s /usr/var /var"
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if you expect your /var to have a lot of stuff in it.
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You will also need /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/bin directories unless you
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change the Makefile. These will have to be created by hand, but if you are
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a long-time Usenet user you probably have them already. /usr/local/man is
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where I keep my man pages, but I have the source for `man' and you probably
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do not. Therefore you may have to put the man pages into /usr/man/manl,
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which will be hard since there will be name collisions. (Note that the man
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command was originally written by Bill Joy before he left Berkeley, and it
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contains no AT&T code, so it is in UUNET's archive of freely-distributable
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BSD code.)
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LINUX note: /usr/include/paths.h on some linux systems shows _PATH_SENDMAIL
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to be /usr/bin/sendmail even though sendmail is installed in /usr/lib.
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you should check this out.
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say:
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make all
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su and say:
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make install
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Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have
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a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.
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Edit your /usr/lib/crontab file into little pieces -- see the CONVERSION file
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for help on this.
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Use the `crontab' command to install all the little pieces you just created.
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Some examples (see below before trying any of these!)
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crontab -u uucp -r /usr/lib/uucp/crontab.src
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crontab -u news -r /usr/lib/news/crontab.src
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crontab -u root -r /usr/adm/crontab.src
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Notes on above examples: (1) the .src files are copied at the time the
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command is issued; changing the source files later will have no effect until
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they are reinstalled with another `crontab -r' command. (2) The crontab
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command will affect the crontab of the person using the command unless `-u
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USER' is given; `-u' only works for root. When using most `su' commands
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under most BSD's, `crontab' will still think of you as yourself even though
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you may think of yourself as root -- so use `-u' liberally. (3) the `-r'
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option stands for `replace'; check the man page for crontab(1) for other
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possibilities.
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Kill your existing cron daemon -- do `ps aux' and look for /etc/cron.
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Edit your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, looking for the line that starts up
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/etc/cron. Comment it out and add a line to start the new cron daemon
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-- usually /usr/local/etc/cron, unless you changed it in the Makefile.
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Start up this cron daemon yourself as root. Just type /usr/local/etc/cron
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(or whatever); no '&' is needed since the daemon forks itself and the
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process you executed returns immediately.
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ATT notes: for those people unfortunate enough to be stuck on a AT&T UNIX,
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you will need the public-domain "libndir", found in the B News source and in
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any comp.sources.unix archive. You will also need to hack the code some.
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