Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-87
Severity: wishlist
Hi Steve, as promised on debian-devel, here's a patch against cron's
postinst that I suggest to adjust permissions of the
/var/spool/cron/crontabs directory plus included crontabs. In my tests
switching between cron and bcron-run as cron system works flawlessly
with this patch, as well as simply updating the cron package. Here's a
preliminary bcron package to test with if you like
http://people.debian.org/~pape/Eez3yao/
I'm not sure whether the conversion of /var/spool/cron/crontabs should
be guarded by the dpkg-statoverride test, IMHO only the chgrp and chmod
of /usr/bin/crontab should be done conditionally, I didn't change that
in the patch below though.
Thanks, Gerrit.
--- debian/postinst 2005-04-10 11:03:29.000000000 +0000
+++ ../cron-3.0pl1/debian/postinst 2005-04-10 12:22:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -43,14 +43,13 @@
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/bin/crontab > /dev/null ; then
chgrp crontab /usr/bin/crontab
chmod g+s /usr/bin/crontab
- chgrp crontab $crondir/crontabs
+ chown root:crontab $crondir/crontabs
chmod 1730 $crondir/crontabs
- if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "3.0pl1-81" ; then
- cd $crondir/crontabs
- set +e
- ls -1 | xargs -r -n 1 --replace=xxx chown 'xxx:crontab' 'xxx'
- set -e
- fi
+ cd $crondir/crontabs
+ set +e
+ ls -1 | xargs -r -n 1 --replace=xxx chown 'xxx:crontab' 'xxx'
+ set -e
+ ls -1 | xargs -r chmod 0600
fi
if [ -x /etc/init.d/cron ]; then
