[arch-general] Status of dcron

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Sun, 1 May 2011 21:43:42 -0400, Jim Pryor wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:06:47AM +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
>> Jim Pryor wrote:
>> > v4.5 was released as a tarball at <http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/dcron.html>; but Paul won't be able to package it right away.
>> >
>> Pierre already built a 4.5 package, which is current in testing
>> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/i686/dcron
> 
> Super, thanks.
> 
> I suggest these changes:
> 
> --- PKGBUILD    2011-05-01 21:30:00.046676526 -0400
> +++ PKGBUILD.new    2011-05-01 21:35:10.066676512 -0400
> @@ -38,5 +38,8 @@
>     install -D -m0600 extra/root.crontab "$pkgdir/var/spool/cron/root" 
>     install -D -m755 extra/crond.rc "$pkgdir/etc/rc.d/crond"
>     install -D -m0644 extra/crond.conf "$pkgdir/etc/conf.d/crond"
> -   install -D -m644 extra/crond.logrotate "$pkgdir/etc/logrotate.d/crond"
> +   #install -D -m644 extra/crond.logrotate "$pkgdir/etc/logrotate.d/crond"
> +   install -D -m644 extra/crontab.vim
> "$pkgdir/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/crontab.vim"
> +   sed -i -e 's=/var/spool/cron/cronstamps=/var/spool/cronstamps='
> extra/prune-cronstamps
> +   install -D -m755 extra/prune-cronstamps
> "$pkgdir/etc/cron.d/prune-cronstamps"
>  }
> 
> 
> But none of those are especially urgent. Note that the logrotate file
> should not be installed if there continues to be a reference to
> /var/log/crond.log in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. I distribute it as
> an example for users or distros who don't use dcron with syslog.

Thanks for the hint. Just applied that to the package.

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre