On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:19, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, it's another example for a package which heavily deviates from > upstream (AFAIK, upstream is defunct) and is now developed by the > GNU/Linux distributions (and each variant has a slightly different > features). Despite this, the situation with cron is rather good; > its complexity is not so high that it's close to impossible to port back > security bugs.
Cron is a good candidate for a fork. Cron is not THAT difficult in terms of coding, assembling a small team with representatives from all major distributions to maintain a fork of Vixie cron should be doable. Another option is using Dillon cron or fcron as a replacement. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
