On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:09, Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
What do people think of replacing our cron package
(vixie-cron) and anacron with fcron?
http://fcron.free.fr/
Fwiw 2.9.4 is supposed to have SElinux support.
fcron works in a slightly different way to vixie-cron in managing crontabs
etc. I have been using it along side vixie-cron for quite a while (it's good
for laptops as it doesn't miss jobs when the machine is suspended).
The 2.9.4 release has support for the "old" SE Linux. I've written a patch
to
provide new SE Linux support which I've sent to the author. I've got fcron
running on a new SE Linux machine and it's doing OK.
We would want to get someone good to audit the code before we consider making
it our standard cron.
I've attached my patch to make it work with new SE Linux (which we use).
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