Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> 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.
I could do not much more than coordinate it at this point, so I suggest we
find a third person before any uploads are done.
You'll want to get the last Debian fcron package to inspect the local
changes and parametrization, some of it will have to be modernized and
forward-ported to recent fcron.
http://snapshot.debian.org/package/fcron/3.0.1-1.3/
We'll have to dig out the old bug reports from the BTS as well, some of them
have to be addressed before the package is reintroduced to unstable.
Unfortunately, since the bugs were "auto-closed" by the fcron removal, we
have to go over all of them and reopen those that would still apply.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;src=fcron;dist=unstable
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Henrique Holschuh
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