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- cron for DEBIAN
- ----------------------
-
- This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged and heavily modified version
- of Paul Vixie's cron subsystem.
-
- Debian's cron development is being done on Alioth:
- http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cron
-
- 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.
-
- Debian's cron version introduces a significant number of changes:
- * Support for /etc/cron.d (drop-in dir for package crontabs)
- * Debian-specific file locations and commands
- * PAM support
- * SELinux support
- * auditlog support
- * DST and other time-related changes/fixes
- * SGID crontab(1) instead of SUID root
- * numerous other smaller features and fixes.
-
- Users are STRONGLY advised to carefully check the man pages crontab(1)
- and crontab(5). System administrators should also read cron(8).
-
- File locations that are different than that indicated in
- the cron distributions README:
-
- user crontabs: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
- log file: Check your syslog settings, facility "cron"
- allow file: /etc/cron.allow
- deny file: /etc/cron.deny
-
- This package is now maintained by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
- <jfs@computer.org> and Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>.
-