fcron for Debian ----------------------------------------------------------------- While in principle this would be possible, the Debian package of fcron does not try to supersede cron. Note, however, that it has to play dirty with anacron so as to hijack control of /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} from cron even if anacron is not installed in the system. This is done symlinking /usr/sbin/anacron to /bin/true, and unfortunately causes the fcron package to conflict with the anacron package. If you just removed (as opposed to purging) the anacron package to install fcron, anacron's initscript might still try to activate anacron. This is harmless, do NOT file bugs against anacron because of it! I'm working with upstream to make fcron more secure (although it looks fairly secure as is). If you don't want to worry about any possible security holes, remove the suid permission from fcrontab (using either suidregister or dpkg-statoverride), and do not install fcrontabs for anyone other than root. -- Henrique M. Holschuh , Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:14:13 -0200