A C compiler (e.g. gcc) (optional) readline development library (e.g. libreadline-dev) (optional) PAM development library (e.g. libpam0g-dev) (optional) SE Linux development library (e.g. libselinux1-dev) (optional) Linux audit development library (e.g. libaudit-dev) If compiling from git checkout (rather than a tarball), then no generated file will be included out of the box, so you will need more tools to generate them. In particular the ./configure script and the documentation will be generated from the sources. git autoconf docbook docbook-xsl docbook-xml docbook-util manpages-dev uncompress the archive: bash$ tar -xzf fcron-X.Y.Z.src.tar.gz cd to the archive directory bash$ cd fcron-X.Y.Z run the configure script: bash$ ./configure If you can't see a ./configure, then you probably checked out the files from git, in which case you need to run autoconf to generate the configure script. If using PAM, beware that by default the PAM configuration will be installed in /usr/local/etc/. That most likely mean that your system won't use this config, and may ask you to type your password everytime you start fcrontab or fcrondyn. The simplest way to avoid this is to instruct configure to use /etc instead with: bash$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc You may also want to change the place where &fcron; will be installed: you can use the configure 's option --prefix to do that. For instance: bash$ ./configure --prefix=/usr--sysconfdir=/etc (default is prefix=/usr/local and sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc). To disable the use of PAM, SE Linux or &fcrondyn;, use configure's option --with-pam=no, --with-selinux=no and/or --with-fcrondyn=no. The command make install asks you by default some questions you have to answer. To avoid that (which can be useful for automatic installers), you can use the ./configure's option --with-answer-all and/or --with-boot-install (see "./configure --help" for more details). To debug &fcron;, you should use configure 's option --with-debug. You can get info on the others configure 's options by running "./configure --help". The configure script may not define a correct directory for the man pages and the documentation on some systems. You may check the values defined by configure and if necessary force a value by the options --mandir and -with-docdir (see the help by running "./configure --help"). If you get older &fcron;'s man-pages with man command after having upgraded, it's probably because &fcron; has changed its default man directory: you should remove manually the outdated man-pages. The Makefile has been designed for GNU make. Some other version of make may fail to use it. (optional) check the file config.h, and change it if necessary (the configurable part is on the top of the file and clearly delimited). compile: bash$ make then install binaries as root: bash$ su root bash# make install You can now run fcron and fcrontab. This is a POSIX conforming software. You must have a POSIX compiler (gcc for example) in order to compile it. This software has been written for GNU/Linux systems. If you want to port it on an other Unix platform (thank you if you do it), try to modify - if possible - only the configure script. Please send me any modifications at &email; in order to include it in future releases.