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- cron for DEBIAN
- ----------------------
-
- This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of Paul Vixie's cron
- subsystem.
-
- This package was put together by Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>,
- from the standard sources to 3.0pl1, as posted to comp.sources.unix.
- Ian obtained them from
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume27/vixie-cron.
-
- The changes are essentially the configuration for Debian Linux in the
- Makefile and pathnames.h, and the addition of support for the Debian
- package maintenance scheme in the form of various files (now in the
- debian directory).
-
- File locations that are different than that indicated in
- the cron distributions README:
-
- user crontabs: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
- log file: /var/log/cron.log
- allow file: /etc/cron.allow
- deny file: /etc/cron.deny
-
- Note that the location of the log file can be changed via syslog.conf.
-
- 1998: Added reading of crontab fragments from /etc/cron.d to support
- other Debian package cron requirements. Files follow /etc/crontab
- format (i.e. with user field), must meet run-parts(8) naming
- convention (alphanumeric, underscore, hyphen only).
-
- This package is now maintained by Steve Greenland
- <stevegr@master.debian.org>.
-
-