fcron for Debian
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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 <hmh@debian.org>, Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:14:13 -0200
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