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