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cron for DEBIAN
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This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged and heavily modified version
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of Paul Vixie's cron subsystem.
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Debian's cron development is being done on Alioth:
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http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cron/cron.git
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This package was put together by Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>,
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from the standard sources to 3.0pl1, as posted to comp.sources.unix.
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Ian obtained them from
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src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume27/vixie-cron.
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Debian's cron version introduces a significant number of changes:
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* Support for /etc/cron.d (drop-in dir for package crontabs)
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* Debian-specific file locations and commands
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* PAM support
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* SELinux support
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* auditlog support
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* DST and other time-related changes/fixes
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* SGID crontab(1) instead of SUID root
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* numerous other smaller features and fixes.
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Users are STRONGLY advised to carefully check the man pages crontab(1)
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and crontab(5). System administrators should also read cron(8).
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File locations that are different than that indicated in
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the cron distributions README:
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user crontabs: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
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log file: Check your syslog settings, facility "cron"
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allow file: /etc/cron.allow
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deny file: /etc/cron.deny
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This package is now maintained by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
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<jfs@debian.org> and Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>
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Historical note: The old subversion repository from before the
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migration to git can be found here:
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http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cron
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