This is Vixie cron 3.0. This version fixes all known security bugs.

Further it implements crontab -e.
I moved cron from /usr/libexec to /usr/sbin where most daemons are
that are run from rc. That also gets rid of the ugly path crond
used to have in ps(1) outputs. Further I renamed it to cron, as
Paul Vixie likes it and is done by NetBSD.

NOTE VERY WELL THE FOLLOWING:

1) Systems crontab changed. Every users crontab resides in /var/cron
   *EXCEPT* root's. This is a special crontab as it resides in
   /etc. Further it is the *ONLY* crontab file in which you specify
   usernames. See /usr/src/etc/crontab. This is also done by BSDI's
   BSD/386 as far as I know (they provided the patches for it anyway)
2) So you *must* delete root's crontab and reinstall the copy
   in /etc from /usr/src/etc.
   'Must' is to much: the old installed crontab will work but cron
   will also try to 'run' /etc/crontab.
3) Last but not least: cron's logging is now done via syslog. Note
   that logging by cron is done lowercase when it logs about itsself
   and uppercase when it logs user events, like installing a new crontab.
   The default logfile file is the same as before:
   	syslog.conf:cron.*	/var/cron/log

-Guido

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc
index 8907e7f..bc78afe 100644
--- a/etc/rc
+++ b/etc/rc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#	$Id: rc,v 1.13 1994/01/04 18:06:18 ache Exp $
+#	$Id: rc,v 1.14 1994/01/08 17:49:47 ache Exp $
 #	From: @(#)rc	5.27 (Berkeley) 6/5/91
 
 # System startup script run by init on autoboot
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ echo clearing /tmp
 # echo 'turning on accounting';	accton /var/account/acct
 
 echo -n standard daemons:
-echo -n ' crond';		/usr/libexec/crond
+echo -n ' cron';		cron
 echo '.'
 
 echo -n starting network daemons: