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2004-02-24remove reference to -x bit;Jason McIntyre
ok millert@
2003-06-17Sync with share/misc/license.template and add missing DARPA creditTodd C. Miller
where applicable.
2003-06-12- section reorderJason McIntyre
- macro fixes - kill whitespace at EOL - new sentence, new line
2003-06-03Don't need 'all right reserved'; brings this into line with my otherTodd C. Miller
ISC-style copyrights.
2003-02-20Sync with ISC cron-current + my at(1) integration.Todd C. Miller
The at(1) code is now more tightly integrated into the cron codebase.
2003-02-19Mention that /etc/crontab must be mode 0600 if it exists.Todd C. Miller
2003-02-19Move contents of /var/at into /var/cron since at is now intergrated intoTodd C. Miller
cron. When ISC cron 5.0 is out the integration will be even tighter. Also rename /var/cron/{allow,deny} -> /var/cron/cron.{allow,deny} for consistency with POSIX and at.{allow,deny} and install an empty cron.deny file (as we do at.deny) since crontab will require this in the near future for POSIX compliance. After a "make build" you can update your system as follows: # mv /var/at/* /var/cron # mv /var/cron/jobs /var/cron/atjobs # mv /var/cron.allow /var/cron/cron.allow # mv /var/cron.deny /var/cron/cron.deny # rm -rf /var/at # kill `cat /var/run/cron.pid` ; cron
2003-02-17Add a -n flag and version string; from vixieTodd C. Miller
2003-02-01typos;Jason McIntyre
chat(8): removed reference to uucico(8) ok deraadt@
2002-07-15Move atrun(8) functionality into cron(8) proper. This fixes theTodd C. Miller
long-standing annoyance that atrun's granularity is 10 minutes. Most at jobs run with a 1 minute granularity. Jobs submitted via "at now" or "batch" will run immediately. Includes a rewritten cron(8) man page. at(1) will be integrated more closely into cron at a future date. Upgrading notes: the atrun job in root's crontab should be removed. the /var/at/spool directory is no longer used
2002-07-08Merge in some changes from Paul Vixie's tree; most are cosmeticTodd C. Miller
o ANSI function headers o return (foo) not return foo o add -oi to sendmail flags o update email address in man pages o make some strings const o completely remove globbing cruft from popen.c o whitespace changes o add DOW_STAR to flags for "monthly", "weekly", and "daily" cron entries
2002-05-09crontab is no longer setuid root, it is now setgid crontab.Todd C. Miller
These changes were modelled after the Owl version of vixie-cron, but developed independently. Our crontab used to send cron SIGUSR1 to tell cron to reread the spool dir. Now that crontab is not setuid root this doesn't work. Instead, crontab pokes cron via a Unix domain socket located in the tabs dir. Please note, after these changes, the owner on user crontab files will have to be changed manually from root to the uid of the corresponding user for crontab to be usable. cron itself will accept tab files owned by either root or the user. Also, any /var/cron/{allow,deny} files must be readable by group crontab.
2001-12-20Cause crontab to send SIGUSR1 when a user's crontab file has changed.Todd C. Miller
In cron, this interrupts the sleep() in cron_sleep() and causes cron to check to see what signal woke it up and act appropriately. This makes crontab changes take effect more or immediately.
2001-12-13Mention that cron should be started late in the rc file and why.Todd C. Miller
2001-08-02o) .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS;Mike Pechkin
o) .Sh EXAMPLE -> .Sh EXAMPLES; o) Delete .Sh OPTIONS. Text moved to .Sh DESCRIPTION; millert@ ok
2001-02-19We handle the clock going backwards.Todd C. Miller
2001-02-18Update to ISC cron 4.0b1 + our patches. This is now under a BSD license.Todd C. Miller
I also fixed the signal handlers while I was at it.
2000-03-19Remove hard sentence breaks. Add $OpenBSD$ tags where appropriate. Some otherAaron Campbell
cleanup along the way.
1999-07-07The proper order of the ``introductory'' macros in a man page is .Dd/.Dt/.Os.Aaron Campbell
Out of the approximately 1450 man pages, only about 90 of them were wrong. Thanks to kwesterback@home.com for coming up with a script and patch to repair this. The patch also inserted a .Os macro in the few man pages that were missing one.
1999-07-02consistent .Dd usage; proper format is: .Dd Month DD, YYYYAaron Campbell
1999-06-18new mandoc cron(8), crontab(1), and crontab(5) man pages; kwesterback@home.comAaron Campbell
1999-06-05remove trailing whitespace, some Nm cleanupAaron Campbell
1999-03-10Daylight Saving Time, not savingsPaul Janzen
1997-12-22handle timing normally except when clock jumps between 1 and 3 hours. If itTheo de Raadt
jumps, attempt as best as possible to gaurantee that jobs DO run, but only run ONCE; patch by thompson@.tgsoft.com
1995-10-18initial import of NetBSD treeTheo de Raadt