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- $Header: INSTALL,v 2.1 90/07/18 00:23:36 vixie Exp $
-
- *** This does not work on ATT SysV yet, and given the feature overlap,
- it may never do so.
-
- Read the comments at the top of the Makefile, then edit the area marked
- 'configurable stuff'.
-
- Edit config.h. The stuff I expect you to change is down a bit from the
- top of the file, but it's clearly marked.
-
- You don't have to create the /var/cron or /var/cron/tabs directories, since
- both the daemon and the `crontab' program will do this the first time they
- run if they don't exist. You do need to have a /var, though -- just "mkdir
- /var" if you don't have one, or you can "mkdir /usr/var; ln -s /usr/var /var"
- if you expect your /var to have a lot of stuff in it.
-
- You will also need /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/bin directories unless you
- change the Makefile. These will have to be created by hand, but if you are
- a long-time Usenet user you probably have them already. /usr/local/man is
- where I keep my man pages, but I have the source for `man' and you probably
- do not. Therefore you may have to put the man pages into /usr/man/manl,
- which will be hard since there will be name collisions. (Note that the man
- command was originally written by Bill Joy before he left Berkeley, and it
- contains no AT&T code, so it is in UUNET's archive of freely-distributable
- BSD code.)
-
- say:
- make all
-
- su and say:
- make install
-
- Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have
- a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.
-
- Edit your /usr/lib/crontab file into little pieces -- see the CONVERSION file
- for help on this.
-
- Use the `crontab' command to install all the little pieces you just created.
- Some examples (see below before trying any of these!)
-
- crontab -u uucp -r /usr/lib/uucp/crontab.src
- crontab -u news -r /usr/lib/news/crontab.src
- crontab -u root -r /usr/adm/crontab.src
-
- Notes on above examples: (1) the .src files are copied at the time the
- command is issued; changing the source files later will have no effect until
- they are reinstalled with another `crontab -r' command. (2) The crontab
- command will affect the crontab of the person using the command unless `-u
- USER' is given; `-u' only works for root. When using most `su' commands
- under most BSD's, `crontab' will still think of you as yourself even though
- you may think of yourself as root -- so use `-u' liberally. (3) the `-r'
- option stands for `replace'; check the man page for crontab(1) for other
- possibilities.
-
- Kill your existing cron daemon -- do `ps aux' and look for /etc/cron.
-
- Edit your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, looking for the line that starts up
- /etc/cron. Comment it out and add a line to start the new cron daemon
- -- usually /usr/local/etc/crond, unless you changed it in the Makefile.
-
- Start up this cron daemon yourself as root. Just type /usr/local/etc/crond
- (or whatever); no '&' is needed since the cron daemon forks itself and the
- process you executed returns immediately.
-
- ATT notes: for those people unfortunate enough to be stuck on a AT&T UNIX,
- you will need the public-domain "libndir", found in the B News source and in
- any comp.sources.unix archive. You will also need to hack the code some.
-