On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 09:50 -0500, Larry Len Rainey wrote:
Don't forget that root is not the only user that runs cron jobs. Your biggest SLES customer has 10 different cron users and has C programs that add and delete entries to cron to emulate the old IBM Series 1 applications that they have run since 1984 on Unix and now SLES 11.
Well, since this is an openSUSE mailing list, I have to point out: openSUSE has no SLES customers. openSUSE is a community, producing community-backed distributions (openSUSE Leap, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Kubic. MicroOS) and has no 'customers' (in the sense of paying and support 'entitled' customers). We call them simply users (who often become contributors by the fact that they help each other out and give each other support) SUSE, the main sponsor of openSUSE, produces own products based on openSUSE's distributios and packages. One such product being SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and SUSE has a customer base. openSUSE being maintained by all kind of contirbutors (some sponsored by various companies, SUSE being one of them, but not the only one) is free to maintain in their repositories anything they wish (for as long as there are actively maintainers taking care of it); so even if SUSE were to decide to drop cronie from their products, openSUSE, the community, would be free to keep cronie in the openSUSE distributions. This *might( require a new set of maintainers looking after it though, as the people sponsored to look after cronie might no longer be assigned said task (as there is no benefit for the sponsor). Cheers, Dominique