diff options
| author | Chris Abela <kristofru@gmail.com> | 2012-08-12 12:57:04 -0400 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2012-08-14 22:30:50 -0500 |
| commit | 6cde0c7ced6f9f730c021e6cc8871fce81de71b7 (patch) | |
| tree | d5412c176c2f22b667e627a3c11e7cc45d8579a2 /system/cronie/README | |
| parent | 26bcd5c4b53be98263cf7036f0b0ec032685f5a0 (diff) | |
system/cronie: Added (The standard UNIX cron daemon)
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/cronie/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/cronie/README | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/cronie/README b/system/cronie/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..0494ca1eea6eb --- /dev/null +++ b/system/cronie/README @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs +at scheduled times and related tools. It is based on the original cron and +has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam +and SELinux. + +By default this SlackBuild will include anacron in the package. If you do want +this, pass ANACRON=no to the SlackBuild. + +Note that Slackware has dcron - Dillon's Cron daemon. This package will +conflict with this package. It is advised to remove dcron before installing +cronie: + + Stop the dcron daemon: + # ps x | grep cron + # kill <cron_pid> + Remove the dcron package: + # removepkg dcron + # rm -rf /var/spool/cron + +Slackware's boot script assumes that you have dcron and thus has to be +modified: + +Change this line in /etc/rc.d/rc.M + + /usr/sbin/crond -l notice + +to: + + /usr/sbin/crond |