bcron
Short Description
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>
Version 0.09
2005-06-08
This is bcron, a new cron system designed with secure operations in
mind. To do this, the system is divided into several seperate programs,
each responsible for a seperate task, with strictly controlled
communications between them. The user interface is a drop-in
replacement for similar systems (such as vixie-cron), but the internals
differ greatly.
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Development versions of bcron are available via Subversion at:
svn://bruce-guenter.dyndns.org/bcron/trunk
Requirements:
- Needs ucspi-unix (or ucspi-local) to be able to accept user-submitted
crontabs.
- bglibs version 1.021 or later from http://untroubled.org/bglibs/
Installation:
- Build the sources by running "make"
- Run the "instshow" command to see what will be installed (optional).
- After the package has been compiled, run the following command as root:
make install
This command will produce no output if there are no errors.
Configuration:
- Create a system user and group "cron". This user will own all the
crontab files.
- Create the spool directory as follows:
mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs /var/spool/cron/tmp
mkfifo /var/spool/cron/trigger
for i in crontabs tmp trigger; do
chown cron:cron /var/spool/cron/$i
chmod go-rwx /var/spool/cron/$i
done
- Create the configuration directory /etc/bcron as follows:
mkdir -p /etc/bcron
You can put any common configuration settings into this directory,
like alternate spool directories in BCRON_SPOOL.
Operation:
- The scheduler can be started with the following command:
envdir /etc/bcron bcron-start | multilog t /var/log/bcron &
- To accept crontabs from users, run the spooler:
envdir /etc/bcron \
envuidgid cron \
unixserver -U /var/run/bcron-spool \
bcron-spool >/dev/null 2>&1 &
- To update system crontabs, run the updater:
envdir /etc/bcron \
bcron-update /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d >/dev/null 2>&1 &
- Sample run scripts are provided for operating the above commands under
svscan and supervise (or equivalents such as runit).
This package is Copyright(C) 2005 Bruce Guenter or FutureQuest, Inc.,
and may be copied according to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL)
Version 2 or a later version. A copy of this license is included with
this package. This package comes with no warranty of any kind.
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RPM File: bcron-0.09-1.src.rpm
Name : bcron Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.09 Vendor: (none) Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Jun 8 18:15:23 2005 Group : Utilities/System Source RPM: (none) Size : 60038 License: GPL Packager : Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> URL : http://untroubled.org/bcron/ Summary : Bruce's Cron System Description : Bruce's Cron System Requires : bglibs >= 1.021 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1