Feature changed by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Feature #309015, revision 4 Title: Cronie as default cron openSUSE-11.3: Candidate Priority Requester: Important + Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Michal Seben (mseben) Description: Currently there is no chance to push our ~20 patches to upstream (it's already dead), so my suggestion is : switch to cronie. See prepared simple wiki page about this step. See http://en.opensuse.org/Cron_replace Documentation Impact: * we will have anacron and audit support * we will use /usr/sbin/crond instead of /usr/sbin/cron - this change should not be problem (causes only small init script correction) * see syscrondir.diff we will move to 600 permissions rule, for each crontab file (/var/spool/cron/tabs/username) * old 'crontab' command called without args prints message with usage options and do nothing, new crontab from cronie waits for input on stdin (waits to enter your new crontab rule) + Discussion: + #1: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-02-16 11:20:39) + Sounds OK, just propose to add the /usr/sbin/cron compat symlink. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309015

Feature changed by: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) Feature #309015, revision 6 Title: Cronie as default cron openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by (mvyskocil) reject date: 2010-08-18 13:53:56 reject reason: not enough time to do it properly Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Michal Seben (mseben) Developer: Michal Seben (mseben) Description: Currently there is no chance to push our ~20 patches to upstream (it's already dead), so my suggestion is : switch to cronie. See prepared simple wiki page about this step. See http://en.opensuse.org/Cron_replace Documentation Impact: * we will have anacron and audit support * we will use /usr/sbin/crond instead of /usr/sbin/cron - this change should not be problem (causes only small init script correction) * see syscrondir.diff we will move to 600 permissions rule, for each crontab file (/var/spool/cron/tabs/username) * old 'crontab' command called without args prints message with usage options and do nothing, new crontab from cronie waits for input on stdin (waits to enter your new crontab rule) Discussion: #1: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-02-16 11:20:39) Sounds OK, just propose to add the /usr/sbin/cron compat symlink. #2: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-08-18 13:55:17) Hello Michael, mseben did not finish this feature for 11.3. New maintainer of cron is anicka, but she does not have enough time to do it for 11.4 release, so I'm closing this. + #3: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) (2010-08-26 20:30:03) + pam_conv and minus_log patches where merged upstream, I think we are + ready for the switch +   + I have updated cronie in Base:System , it needs a bit testing though. +   -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309015

Feature changed by: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) Feature #309015, revision 8 Title: Cronie as default cron openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by (mvyskocil) reject date: 2010-08-18 13:53:56 reject reason: not enough time to do it properly Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michal Seben (mseben) + Developer: (Novell) Developer: Michal Seben (mseben) Description: Currently there is no chance to push our ~20 patches to upstream (it's already dead), so my suggestion is : switch to cronie. See prepared simple wiki page about this step. See http://en.opensuse.org/Cron_replace Documentation Impact: * we will have anacron and audit support * we will use /usr/sbin/crond instead of /usr/sbin/cron - this change should not be problem (causes only small init script correction) * see syscrondir.diff we will move to 600 permissions rule, for each crontab file (/var/spool/cron/tabs/username) * old 'crontab' command called without args prints message with usage options and do nothing, new crontab from cronie waits for input on stdin (waits to enter your new crontab rule) Discussion: #1: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-02-16 11:20:39) Sounds OK, just propose to add the /usr/sbin/cron compat symlink. #2: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-08-18 13:55:17) Hello Michael, mseben did not finish this feature for 11.3. New maintainer of cron is anicka, but she does not have enough time to do it for 11.4 release, so I'm closing this. #3: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) (2010-08-26 20:30:03) pam_conv and minus_log patches where merged upstream, I think we are ready for the switch   I have updated cronie in Base:System , it needs a bit testing though.   + #4: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) (2010-09-24 15:36:20) + I did this replacement, and was submitted to factory too. done in 11.4 + . -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309015

Feature changed by: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) Feature #309015, revision 10 Title: Cronie as default cron openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by (mvyskocil) reject date: 2010-08-18 13:53:56 reject reason: not enough time to do it properly Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.4: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michal Seben (mseben) Developer: (Novell) Developer: Michal Seben (mseben) Description: Currently there is no chance to push our ~20 patches to upstream (it's already dead), so my suggestion is : switch to cronie. See prepared simple wiki page about this step. See http://en.opensuse.org/Cron_replace Documentation Impact: * we will have anacron and audit support * we will use /usr/sbin/crond instead of /usr/sbin/cron - this change should not be problem (causes only small init script correction) * see syscrondir.diff we will move to 600 permissions rule, for each crontab file (/var/spool/cron/tabs/username) * old 'crontab' command called without args prints message with usage options and do nothing, new crontab from cronie waits for input on stdin (waits to enter your new crontab rule) Discussion: #1: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-02-16 11:20:39) Sounds OK, just propose to add the /usr/sbin/cron compat symlink. #2: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2010-08-18 13:55:17) Hello Michael, mseben did not finish this feature for 11.3. New maintainer of cron is anicka, but she does not have enough time to do it for 11.4 release, so I'm closing this. #3: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) (2010-08-26 20:30:03) pam_conv and minus_log patches where merged upstream, I think we are ready for the switch   I have updated cronie in Base:System , it needs a bit testing though.   #4: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) (2010-09-24 15:36:20) I did this replacement, and was submitted to factory too. done in 11.4 . + #5: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) (2010-09-28 21:43:00) + Now switch is done in Factory, found some bugs, will work with + upstream. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309015