On 30/09/14 11:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff writes: >>>> Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer. >>>> Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that manual? >>> >>> See the part about setting environment variables. You should be able to >>> set TZ=UTC . >> >> This sets the environmental variable for the shell forked by cron, but >> doesn't change the environmental variable for evaluating the crontab >> time specifications. [It's probably past time for cron to be replaced >> with fcron or similar, but cron+anacrontab seems to work well enough for >> most people that it hasn't happened. fcron used to be in Debian, but got >> removed because it was unmaintained in Debian (and upstream at the >> time).] > > I used to maintain fcron in Debian, however SELinux support was not upstream > yet, broke, and I had no time to fix it. Russell Coker tried to help giving > me an account on a SELinux box, but the real problem was that more human > power was needed, and the RFH bug received no response. > > So I ended up agreeing that it should be removed, because the package was > bitrotting fast. > > Reintroducing fcron in Debian will require some work to be done properly, > and past history tells me to not do it at all unless we have at least > *three* people willing to enter team maintainership commited to the effort. > > upstream is friendly, but fcron is in maintenance mode. If you want > anything done, you will have to write the code and submit upstream. >
I've just cloned the repository from upstream; it looks sensible, so if you're willing to coordinate it, I'm willing to devote some time to help maintain the Debian effort. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/542a9ac7.1020...@vanderhoff.org
