Re: Re: OT: flaws in vixie-cron? (Was: Design of yet another cron system)
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:12:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > Though that shouldn't be an issue, if the other cron is GPL'd. > > The most useful crontab.5 man page (and closest in terms of features) is > from vixie-cron, which is BSD licensed IIRC. As long as it's three-clause BSD (i.e. no advertising clause), it can be incorporated in a GPL-licensed program without problem -- at least as far as I understand it. It should be safe to use that as a base. > > I may be able to spare a couple of hours to write a man page. Do you have > > a point-form list of the differences that must be documented? > > It is basically the same as what has become standard for vixie-cron (with > the "user" column in /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/*), but with no special > "@" features that some patches add. That includes ranges and steps in all > the time fields, as well as month and weekday names. Okay. I'll have a look at this shortly. > Oh, and using "%" for feeding data into the command's stdin doesn't work > neither. Good thing, too. That's always been a "WTF were they thinking?" bit for me. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------