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Name: vixie-cron Distribution: Red Hat (FC-5)
Version: 4.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release: 58.fc5 Build date: Fri Sep 8 07:49:26 2006
Group: System Environment/Base Build host: hs20-bc2-4.build.redhat.com
Size: 629406 Source RPM: vixie-cron-4.1-58.fc5.src.rpm
Packager: Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary: The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times.
The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron.  Cron is a
standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.
Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration
options to the standard version of cron.

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Copyright

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internal MD5: c2b5f56f24d423577d73895c82c8d79e
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Changelog

* Fri Sep 08 2006 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-58.FC5
  - added two patch from FC-6 (#198019, #199294) - selinux and correct time
      changes in database.c
* Fri Aug 25 2006 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-57.FC5
  - patch from Jose Plans fixed: Job delayed after using crontab -e
* Fri Aug 25 2006 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-56.FC5
  - small changes in man-page cron
  - (#203746) RFC3834, patch from James Ralston
* Fri Jul 14 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-55.FC5
  - fix bug 198893 - change permissions of cron spool directories to 0700
  - fix bug 191823: fix missing BuildRequires: audit-libs-devel
* Wed Feb 15 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-54.FC5
  - fix bug 181702: Requires:audit-libs, not Requires:audit
* Tue Feb 14 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-52.FC5
  - fix bug 181439: enable easier selection of optional 'WITH_*'
    compilation features
* Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4:4.1-51.FC5.1
  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
* Tue Feb 07 2006 Jason Vas Dias<jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-51.FC5
  - fix bug 180145: provide support for mail in non-ascii charsets
* Thu Jan 26 2006 Jason Vas Dias<jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-50.FC5
  - fix bug 178436: prevent per-minute jobs being delayed into next minute
  - fix bug 178931: remove pam_unix and pam_krb5 from pam session stack
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Jason Vas Dias<jvdias@redhat.com>
  - fix bug 177476: make minder/mailer process run as job user 
    with user context; re-organize PAM and SELinux code
* Thu Dec 15 2005 Jason Vas Dias<jvdias@redhat.com>
  - fix bug 172885: Replace Requires:sysklogd with Requires:syslog
* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Sun Nov 13 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-41.FC5
  - patches for IBM LSPP testing:
  - Steve Grubb's patch to emit audit log message on crontab denial
  - Use of sendmail unacceptable for LSPP: provide -m <mail command> option
* Tue Oct 18 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-40.FC5
  - *** NOTE : please do not modify vixie-cron without contacting ***
    *** the package maintainer (me at the moment).                ***
    *** Or at least test it first!                                ***
  - fix bug 170830: it was not the pam_stack change - the setuid
    mode of crontab was dropped for some reason.
  - apply Dan's new getseuserbyname patch
  - somehow build_env() invocation was dropped - use pam_env settings.
* Fri Oct 14 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-39-FC5
  - fix bug 170830: the last PAM change disabled all cron jobs.
    backing out the new PAM configuration file until I've had a
    chance to test it with replacement of pam_stack.so.
* Thu Oct 13 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.1-38.FC5
  - use include instead of pam_stack in pam config
* Sat Aug 13 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>  - 4.1-37.FC5
  - Change checkPasswdAccess to selinux_check_passwd_access for new selinux api
* Mon Jul 11 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-36.FC4
  - fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user
  - further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):
       invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user
* Fri Jun 17 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-FC4.34
  - fix bug 160811: FC3 version compared >= FC4 version
  - fix bug 159216: add pam_loginuid support for new audit system
* Thu Apr 14 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-33_FC4
  - fix bug 154922 / CAN-2005-1038: check that new crontab is 
        regular file after editor session ends.
  - fix bug 154575: use PATH_MAX (4096) as max filename length; also make 
        limits on command line and env.var. lengths sensible (131072).
* Fri Apr 08 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-32_FC4
  - do pam_close_session and pam_setcred(pamh, PAM_DELETE_CRED)
  - if fork fails
* Thu Apr 07 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-30_FC4
  - fix bug 154065: crontab's job control broken: by 
  -     xpid = waitpid(pid,&waiter,WUNTRACED);... 
  -     if( WIFSTOPPED(waiter) )... kill(getpid(),WSTOPSIG(waiter));
  - crontab should not kill itself with SIGSTOP if its child
  - gets SIGSTOP; hence it does not need the waitpid WUNTRACED flag.
* Tue Apr 05 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-28_FC4
  - Required for EAL Audit certification: 
  - If pam_setcred should fail, the pam_session could fail to be
  - closed, leaving autofs user directories still mounted.
* Tue Mar 15 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-26_FC4
  - fix bug 151145: segfault if cronjob runs without any SELinux user 
  - security context (eg. in a broken chroot environment)
* Fri Feb 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-24_FC4
  - Add an /etc/sysconfig/crond file for containing CRONDARGS and
  - settings like CRON_VALIDATE_MAILRCPTS .
* Fri Feb 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-24_FC4
  - Fix bug 147636 - disable silly mail recipient name checking 
  - (do_command.c's safe_p()) by default . Can be enabled by 
  - presence of CRON_VALIDATE_MAILRCPTS variable in crond's 
  - environment - also '_'s in MAILTOs are allowed.
* Tue Jan 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-22
  - Fix bug 146073 - allow the 'pam_access' module to be used with
  - cron - set 'PAM_TTY' item to 'cron' .
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-21
  - fix bug 142953 : allow read-only crontabs + provide -p 
  - 'permit all crontabs' option to disable mode checking.
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-21
  - fixed all uninitialized variable warnings
* Fri Dec 03 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-20
  - Fix for ppc -m32 RPM_OPT_FLAGS compilation options
  - (bug 141760)
* Fri Oct 15 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-19
  - crontab -e should only strip NHEADER_LINES comments 
  - (NHEADER_LINES==0), not at least one header comment line.
  - (bug 135845)
* Sat Oct 09 2004 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com> - 4.1-18
  - no need to make user installed crontabs readable
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-17
  - Users not allowed to use 'crontab mycrontab', while
  - 'crontab < mycrontab' allowed; this is because misc.c's
  - swap_uids_back() was not using save_euid / save_egid .
  - Thanks to Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> for pointing this out.
* Wed Sep 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-16
  - Just found out in testing that if neither /etc/cron.{deny,allow}
  - exist, root is unable to use crontab - I'm sure root could before,
  - but is in any case meant to be able to. Allowing root to use crontab.
* Wed Sep 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-14
  - Fix for bug 130102 got dropped somehow from latest CVS.
  - This is now restored - in %post, if neither /etc/cron.{deny,allow}
  - exist, touch /etc/cron.deny, to allow all users to use crontab,
  - as was previous default vixie-cron behaviour.
* Fri Sep 17 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4.1-12
  - Merged Dan's patch with vixie-cron-4.1-11 which was not 
  - latest version according to new CVS ?!?!
* Fri Sep 17 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>  - 4.1-12
  - Updated SELinux patch to use checkPasswdAccess
* Tue Aug 31 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-11
  - Fixed SIGSEGV in free_user when !is_selinux_enabled() and crontab
  - has no valid jobs (bug 131390).
* Wed Aug 18 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.10
  - Fixed bug 130102: Restored default behaviour if neither 
  - /etc/cron.deny nor /etc/cron.allow exist - 'touch /etc/cron.deny'
  - in %post
* Wed Aug 11 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.9
  - Removed 0600 mode enforcement as per Florian La Roche's request
* Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.8
  - Allowed editors such as 'gedit' which do not modify original
  - file, but which rename(2) a temp file to original, to be used
  - by crontab -e (bug 129170).
* Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.8
  - Added '-i' option to crontab to prompt the user before deleting
  - crontab with '-r'.
* Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.8
  - Added documentation for '@' nicknames to crontab.5
  - (bugs 107542, 89899). Also removed 'second when' (bug 59802).
* Sun Aug 01 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.7
  - fixed bug 128924: 'cron' log facility not being used
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1.6
  - Added PAM 'auth sufficient pam_rootok.so' to /etc/pam.d/crond
  - (fixes bug 128843) - on dwalsh's advice.
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-5
  - Added Buildrequires: pam-devel
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 4.1-4
  - Fix crontab to do SELinux checkaccess
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-3
  - Fixed bug 128701: cron fails to parse user 6th field in
  - system crontabs (patch15)
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-2
  - Changed 'Requires' dependency from 'pam-devel' to 'pam'.
* Mon Jul 26 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-1
  - Added PAM access control support.
* Thu Jul 22 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-1
  - Changed post-install to change mode of existing crontabs to
  - 0600 to allow run by new ISC cron 4.1
* Thu Jul 22 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>  - 4.1-1
  - Upgraded to ISC cron 4.1
* Thu Jul 01 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-94
  - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-cron-descriptors-125110.patch to close std descriptors
    when forking (Bernd Schmidt, 121280)
  - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-no-crontab-header-89809.patch to not prepend header to
    crontab files (Damian Menscher, 103899)
  - fix use of RETVAL in init.d script (Enrico Scholz, 97784)
  - add safer malloc call to vixie-cron-3.0.1-sprintf.patch 
  - add cron-3.0.1-crontab-syntax-error-114386.patch to fix looping on crontab
    syntax error (Miloslav Trmac, 89937)
* Fri Jun 25 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-93
  - Add fixes from NSA
* Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-92
  - Add fixes from NSA
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-91
  - Change patch to check SElinux properly, go back to using fname instead of uname
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Fri Jun 04 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-89
  - Fix patch
* Fri Jun 04 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-88
  - Add patch to allow it to run in permissive mode.
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Wed Feb 04 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-86
  - Add security_getenforce check.
* Mon Jan 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-85
  - Fix call to is_selinux_enabled()
* Mon Dec 08 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-84
  - change daemon flag to 1
* Wed Dec 03 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-83
  - Add daemon to make sure child is clean
* Fri Nov 07 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-82
  - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-pie.patch to build crond as pie (#108414)
    [Ulrich Drepper]
  - require libselinux and buildrequire libselinux-devel
* Thu Oct 30 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-81.sel
  - turn on selinux
* Tue Sep 30 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-80
  - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-vfork-105616.patch to use fork instead of vfork
    (#105616) [report and patch from ian@caliban.org]
  - update vixie-cron-3.0.1-redhat.patch not to change DESTMAN redundantly
    (it is overrriden in the spec file anyway)
* Fri Sep 05 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-79
  - turn off selinux
* Fri Sep 05 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-78.sel
  - turn on selinux
* Tue Jul 29 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-77
  - Patch to run on SELinux
* Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Wed Mar 19 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-75
  - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-root_-u-85879.patch from Valdis Kletnieks to allow
    root to run "crontab -u <user>" even for users that aren't allowed to
* Wed Feb 19 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 3.0.1-74
  - fix preun script typo (#75137) [reported by Peter Bieringer]
* Tue Feb 11 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 3.0.1-73
  - don't set SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN and then try and wait... (#84046)
* Fri Feb 07 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 3.0.1-72
  - adjust cron.d patch so that it ignores file with names that begin with '#'
    or end with '~', '.rpmorig', '.rpmsave', or '.rpmnew'
  - merge hunk of buffer overflow patch into the cron.d patch
* Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Wed Dec 11 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> 3.0.1-70
  - rebuild on all arches
* Sat Jul 20 2002 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> 3.0.1-69
  - vixie-cron-3.0.1-nonstrip.patch: applied to fix the stripped binary issue.
* Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - automated rebuild
* Mon Jun 10 2002 Bill Huang <bhuang@redhat.com>
  - Fix preun bugs.(#55340)
  - Fix fprintf bugs.(#65209)
* Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - automated rebuild
* Mon Apr 15 2002 Bill Huang <bhuang@redhat.com>
  - Fixed #62963.
* Thu Apr 04 2002 James McDermott <jmcdermo@redhat.com>
  - Alter behavior of crontab to take stdin as the default
    behavior if no options are specified.
* Sun Jun 24 2001 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - Bump release + rebuild.
* Thu Mar 08 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - add patch from Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> to
    fix double execution of jobs (#29868)
* Sun Feb 11 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix buffer overflow in crontab
* Wed Feb 07 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
  - fix usage string in initscript (#26533)
* Tue Feb 06 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix build with new glibc (#25931)
* Tue Jan 23 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - change i18n mechanism
* Fri Jan 19 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - log as 'crond', not 'CROND' (#19410)
  - account for shifts in system clock (#23230, patch from <pererik@onedial.se>)
  - i18n-ize initscript
* Thu Aug 24 2000 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com>
  - fix to set startup position correct at update
* Thu Aug 24 2000 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com>
  - add /sbin/service to Prereq
  - call /sbin/service instead service
  - fix startup position (Bug #13353)
* Mon Aug 07 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix crond logging patch (dan@doom.cmc.msu.ru)
  - log via syslog (suggestion from jos@xos.nl)
  - put system crontab location in crontab(5) (#14842)
* Fri Jul 28 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix condrestart
* Fri Jul 21 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix reload bug (#14065)
* Fri Jul 14 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - move initscript back
* Thu Jul 13 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
  - automatic rebuild
* Thu Jul 06 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - prereq /etc/init.d
* Mon Jul 03 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix %post; we do condrestart in %postun
* Thu Jun 29 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - oops, fix init script
* Tue Jun 27 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - require new initscripts, not prereq
* Mon Jun 26 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - initscript hacks
* Wed Jun 14 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
  - tweak logrotate config
* Sun Jun 11 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - rebuild in new env.
  - FHS fixes
  - don't ship chkconfig links
* Fri Mar 31 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix non-root builds (#10490)
* Sun Mar 26 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.com>
  - do not remove log files
* Thu Feb 03 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - handle compressed man pages
* Fri Sep 10 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - chkconfig --del in %preun, not %postun
* Wed Aug 25 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix buffer overflow
* Mon Aug 16 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - initscript munging
* Fri Jul 30 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
  - dayofmonth and month can't be 0
* Thu Jun 03 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
  - in cron.log use "kill -HUP pid" not killall to preserve errors (#2241).
* Wed Apr 14 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
  - add note to man page about DST conversion causing strangeness
  - documented cron.d patch
* Tue Apr 13 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
  - improved cron.d patch
* Mon Apr 12 1999 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
  - added cron.d patch
* Tue Mar 23 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - logrotate changes
* Tue Mar 23 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
  - clean up log files on deinstallation
* Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> 
  - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 28)
* Wed Dec 30 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
  - build for glibc 2.1
* Wed Jun 10 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
  - translations modified for de
* Wed Jun 10 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
  - reset SIGCHLD before grandchild execle (problem #732)
* Sat May 02 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
  - enhanced initscript
* Mon Apr 27 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
  - translations modified for de, fr, tr
* Thu Dec 11 1997 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
  - added a patch to get rid of the dangerous sprintf() calls
  - added BuildRoot and Prereq: /sbin/chkconfig
* Sun Nov 09 1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
  - fixed cron/crond dichotomy in init file.
* Wed Oct 29 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
  - fixed bad init symlinks
* Thu Oct 23 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
  - force it to use SIGCHLD instead of defunct SIGCLD
* Mon Oct 20 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
  - updated for chkconfig
  - added status, restart options to init script
* Tue Jun 17 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
  - built against glibc
* Wed Feb 19 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
  - Switch conditional from "axp" to "alpha"

Files

/etc/cron.d
/etc/pam.d/crond
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond
/etc/sysconfig/crond
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/sbin/crond
/usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cron.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/crond.8.gz
/var/spool/cron


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