Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?
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.
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