Hi there release team,
I have made a few (minor) improvements to cron that I would like to squeeze
into before base is frozen. Attached is the .changes file of the package I
have ready to upload. Unlike the gettext one (Santiago's) I don't intend
to do an update to the latest upstream, but it's in my TODO list (not for
etch, though)
A summary of the changes:
- typo fixes to manpages
- two example scripts (increases the size of the package in 15K) that can
prove to be very useful (specially the stats-cron code I wrote recently
together with the -L 2 option introduce in -95)
- a change in how cron.{deny,allow} files are handled. In -95 an previous a
user that is both in the deny and allow file will be granted access to
cron task definition, with the change if a user is in both he is denied
access by default. Either case, root access to cron is always assured
- introduced code to use libaudit [1], but its disabled by default as it
is not (yet) available in Debian kernels (or userspace)
Does this look OK to upload?
Regards
Javier
[1] Steve Grubb's Audit daemon whttp://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/, these
changes (and kernel changes) are required for Common Criteria certification,
The patch is based on the one available in Fedora, but rewritten for Debian
as I have done for previous patches and intend to do for many more.
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:07:40 +0200
Source: cron
Binary: cron
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.0pl1-96
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
Changed-By: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
Description:
cron - management of regular background processing
Closes: 379230
Changes:
cron (3.0pl1-96) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Fix error in manpage that prevent a line from being presented (Closes: #379230)
* Introduce Steve Grubb's patch to emit audit log message on crontab denial
based on the patch from Fedora, and adapted to Debian's cron version. The
main difference is that audit logs are generated if cron is compiled to
'ALLOW_ONLY_ROOT'. This patch is currently disabled
since LSPP's audit library is not yet available.
* Change misc.c so that a user that is *both* in the cron.deny and
cron.allow files will be denied access (previously he would be permitted
access)
* Add two example scripts:
- stats-cron.pl: A script written by myself that can be used to audit
the behaviour of cron and benefits from the new cron logging (-L 2)
option to log the *end* of a cronjob.
- crontab2english.pl: A script written by Sean M. Burke that translates
the crontab notation to natural language.
* Adjust debian/copyright to acknowledge the (c) and license of the above
scripts.
Files:
480284dd741e37a451669546ec86d736 801 admin important cron_3.0pl1-96.dsc
0cfbbf5e7962e2bc43ac5f11c6fff88b 64813 admin important cron_3.0pl1-96.diff.gz
0c2c11c2dc2db6f09ee7e891181f1506 76396 admin important cron_3.0pl1-96_i386.deb
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