Subject: Fedora Core 3 Update: vixie-cron-4.1-24_FC3
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-174 2005-02-25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : vixie-cron Version : 4.1 Release : 24_FC3 Summary : The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times. Description : The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron.
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* Fri Feb 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-24_FC3
- Add an /etc/sysconfig/crond file for containing CRONDARGS and - settings like CRON_VALIDATE_MAILRCPTS .
* Fri Feb 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-24_FC3
- Fix bug 147636 - disable silly mail recipient name checking - (do_command.c's safe_p()) by default . Can be enabled by - presence of CRON_VALIDATE_MAILRCPTS variable in crond's - environment - also '_'s in MAILTOs are allowed.
* Tue Jan 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-21_FC3
- Fix bug 146073 - allow the 'pam_access' module to be used with - cron - set 'PAM_TTY' item to 'cron' .
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-20_FC3
- fix bug 142953 : allow read-only crontabs + provide -p - 'permit all crontabs' option to disable mode checking. - bug 135845 fix required 'ch' to be initialized in crontab.c line 322 - (bug 141760)
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-20_FC3
- fixed all uninitialized variable warnings
* Fri Oct 15 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-19
- crontab -e should only strip NHEADER_LINES comments - (NHEADER_LINES==0), not at least one header comment line. - (bug 135845)
* Sat Oct 9 2004 Florian La Roche laroche@redhat.com - 4.1-18
- no need to make user installed crontabs readable
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-17
- Users not allowed to use 'crontab mycrontab', while - 'crontab < mycrontab' allowed; this is because misc.c's - swap_uids_back() was not using save_euid / save_egid . - Thanks to Mads Martin Joergensen mmj@suse.de for pointing this out.
* Wed Sep 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-16
- Just found out in testing that if neither /etc/cron.{deny,allow} - exist, root is unable to use crontab - I'm sure root could before, - but is in any case meant to be able to. Allowing root to use crontab.
* Wed Sep 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-14
- Fix for bug 130102 got dropped somehow from latest CVS. - This is now restored - in %post, if neither /etc/cron.{deny,allow} - exist, touch /etc/cron.deny, to allow all users to use crontab, - as was previous default vixie-cron behaviour.
* Fri Sep 17 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-12
- Merged Dan's patch with vixie-cron-4.1-11 which was not - latest version according to new CVS ?!?!
* Fri Sep 17 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 4.1-12
- Updated SELinux patch to use checkPasswdAccess
* Tue Aug 31 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-11
- Fixed SIGSEGV in free_user when !is_selinux_enabled() and crontab - has no valid jobs (bug 131390).
* Wed Aug 18 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.10
- Fixed bug 130102: Restored default behaviour if neither - /etc/cron.deny nor /etc/cron.allow exist - 'touch /etc/cron.deny' - in %post
* Wed Aug 11 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.9
- Removed 0600 mode enforcement as per Florian La Roche's request
* Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.8
- Allowed editors such as 'gedit' which do not modify original - file, but which rename(2) a temp file to original, to be used - by crontab -e (bug 129170).
* Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.8
- Added '-i' option to crontab to prompt the user before deleting - crontab with '-r'.
* Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.8
- Added documentation for '@' nicknames to crontab.5 - (bugs 107542, 89899). Also removed 'second when' (bug 59802).
* Sun Aug 1 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.7
- fixed bug 128924: 'cron' log facility not being used
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1.6
- Added PAM 'auth sufficient pam_rootok.so' to /etc/pam.d/crond - (fixes bug 128843) - on dwalsh's advice.
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-5
- Added Buildrequires: pam-devel
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 4.1-4
- Fix crontab to do SELinux checkaccess
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-3
- Fixed bug 128701: cron fails to parse user 6th field in - system crontabs (patch15)
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-2
- Changed 'Requires' dependency from 'pam-devel' to 'pam'.
* Mon Jul 26 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-1
- Added PAM access control support.
* Thu Jul 22 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-1
- Changed post-install to change mode of existing crontabs to - 0600 to allow run by new ISC cron 4.1
* Thu Jul 22 2004 Jason Vas Dias jvdias@redhat.com - 4.1-1
- Upgraded to ISC cron 4.1
* Thu Jul 1 2004 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 3.0.1-94
- add vixie-cron-3.0.1-cron-descriptors-125110.patch to close std descriptors when forking (Bernd Schmidt, 121280) - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-no-crontab-header-89809.patch to not prepend header to crontab files (Damian Menscher, 103899) - fix use of RETVAL in init.d script (Enrico Scholz, 97784) - add safer malloc call to vixie-cron-3.0.1-sprintf.patch - add cron-3.0.1-crontab-syntax-error-114386.patch to fix looping on crontab syntax error (Miloslav Trmac, 89937)
* Fri Jun 25 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-93
- Add fixes from NSA
* Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-92
- Add fixes from NSA
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-91
- Change patch to check SElinux properly, go back to using fname instead of uname
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee sopwith@redhat.com
- rebuilt
* Fri Jun 4 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-89
- Fix patch
* Fri Jun 4 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-88
- Add patch to allow it to run in permissive mode.
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee sopwith@redhat.com
- rebuilt
* Wed Feb 4 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-86
- Add security_getenforce check.
* Mon Jan 26 2004 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-85
- Fix call to is_selinux_enabled()
* Mon Dec 8 2003 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-84
- change daemon flag to 1
* Wed Dec 3 2003 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-83
- Add daemon to make sure child is clean
* Fri Nov 7 2003 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 3.0.1-82
- add vixie-cron-3.0.1-pie.patch to build crond as pie (#108414) [Ulrich Drepper] - require libselinux and buildrequire libselinux-devel
* Thu Oct 30 2003 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-81.sel
- turn on selinux
* Tue Sep 30 2003 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 3.0.1-80
- add vixie-cron-3.0.1-vfork-105616.patch to use fork instead of vfork (#105616) [report and patch from ian@caliban.org] - update vixie-cron-3.0.1-redhat.patch not to change DESTMAN redundantly (it is overrriden in the spec file anyway)
* Fri Sep 5 2003 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-79
- turn off selinux
* Fri Sep 5 2003 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-78.sel
- turn on selinux
* Tue Jul 29 2003 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com - 3.0.1-77
- Patch to run on SELinux
* Wed Jun 4 2003 Elliot Lee sopwith@redhat.com
- rebuilt
* Wed Mar 19 2003 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 3.0.1-75
- add vixie-cron-3.0.1-root_-u-85879.patch from Valdis Kletnieks to allow root to run "crontab -u <user>" even for users that aren't allowed to
* Wed Feb 19 2003 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 3.0.1-74
- fix preun script typo (#75137) [reported by Peter Bieringer]
* Tue Feb 11 2003 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com 3.0.1-73
- don't set SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN and then try and wait... (#84046)
* Fri Feb 7 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai nalin@redhat.com 3.0.1-72
- adjust cron.d patch so that it ignores file with names that begin with '#' or end with '~', '.rpmorig', '.rpmsave', or '.rpmnew' - merge hunk of buffer overflow patch into the cron.d patch
* Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers timp@redhat.com
- rebuilt
* Wed Dec 11 2002 Tim Powers timp@redhat.com 3.0.1-70
- rebuild on all arches
* Sat Jul 20 2002 Akira TAGOH tagoh@redhat.com 3.0.1-69
- vixie-cron-3.0.1-nonstrip.patch: applied to fix the stripped binary issue.
* Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers timp@redhat.com
- automated rebuild
* Mon Jun 10 2002 Bill Huang bhuang@redhat.com
- Fix preun bugs.(#55340) - Fix fprintf bugs.(#65209)
* Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers timp@redhat.com
- automated rebuild
* Mon Apr 15 2002 Bill Huang bhuang@redhat.com
- Fixed #62963.
* Thu Apr 4 2002 James McDermott jmcdermo@redhat.com
- Alter behavior of crontab to take stdin as the default behavior if no options are specified.
* Sun Jun 24 2001 Elliot Lee sopwith@redhat.com
- Bump release + rebuild.
* Thu Mar 8 2001 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- add patch from Alan Eldridge alane@geeksrus.net to fix double execution of jobs (#29868)
* Sun Feb 11 2001 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix buffer overflow in crontab
* Wed Feb 7 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg@redhat.com
- fix usage string in initscript (#26533)
* Tue Feb 6 2001 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix build with new glibc (#25931)
* Tue Jan 23 2001 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- change i18n mechanism
* Fri Jan 19 2001 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- log as 'crond', not 'CROND' (#19410) - account for shifts in system clock (#23230, patch from pererik@onedial.se) - i18n-ize initscript
* Thu Aug 24 2000 Than Ngo than@redhat.com
- fix to set startup position correct at update
* Thu Aug 24 2000 Than Ngo than@redhat.com
- add /sbin/service to Prereq - call /sbin/service instead service - fix startup position (Bug #13353)
* Mon Aug 7 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix crond logging patch (dan@doom.cmc.msu.ru) - log via syslog (suggestion from jos@xos.nl) - put system crontab location in crontab(5) (#14842)
* Fri Jul 28 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix condrestart
* Fri Jul 21 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix reload bug (#14065)
* Fri Jul 14 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- move initscript back
* Thu Jul 13 2000 Prospector bugzilla@redhat.com
- automatic rebuild
* Thu Jul 6 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- prereq /etc/init.d
* Mon Jul 3 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix %post; we do condrestart in %postun
* Thu Jun 29 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- oops, fix init script
* Tue Jun 27 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- require new initscripts, not prereq
* Mon Jun 26 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- initscript hacks
* Wed Jun 14 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai nalin@redhat.com
- tweak logrotate config
* Sun Jun 11 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- rebuild in new env. - FHS fixes - don't ship chkconfig links
* Fri Mar 31 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix non-root builds (#10490)
* Sun Mar 26 2000 Florian La Roche Florian.LaRoche@redhat.com
- do not remove log files
* Thu Feb 3 2000 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- handle compressed man pages
* Fri Sep 10 1999 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- chkconfig --del in %preun, not %postun
* Wed Aug 25 1999 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- fix buffer overflow
* Mon Aug 16 1999 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- initscript munging
* Fri Jul 30 1999 Michael K. Johnson johnsonm@redhat.com
- dayofmonth and month can't be 0
* Thu Jun 3 1999 Jeff Johnson jbj@redhat.com
- in cron.log use "kill -HUP pid" not killall to preserve errors (#2241).
* Wed Apr 14 1999 Michael K. Johnson johnsonm@redhat.com
- add note to man page about DST conversion causing strangeness - documented cron.d patch
* Tue Apr 13 1999 Michael K. Johnson johnsonm@redhat.com
- improved cron.d patch
* Mon Apr 12 1999 Erik Troan ewt@redhat.com
- added cron.d patch
* Tue Mar 23 1999 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
- logrotate changes
* Tue Mar 23 1999 Preston Brown pbrown@redhat.com
- clean up log files on deinstallation
* Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton gafton@redhat.com
- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 28)
* Wed Dec 30 1998 Cristian Gafton gafton@redhat.com
- build for glibc 2.1
* Wed Jun 10 1998 Prospector System bugs@redhat.com
- translations modified for de
* Wed Jun 10 1998 Jeff Johnson jbj@redhat.com
- reset SIGCHLD before grandchild execle (problem #732)
* Sat May 2 1998 Cristian Gafton gafton@redhat.com
- enhanced initscript
* Mon Apr 27 1998 Prospector System bugs@redhat.com
- translations modified for de, fr, tr
* Thu Dec 11 1997 Cristian Gafton gafton@redhat.com
- added a patch to get rid of the dangerous sprintf() calls - added BuildRoot and Prereq: /sbin/chkconfig
* Sun Nov 9 1997 Michael K. Johnson johnsonm@redhat.com
- fixed cron/crond dichotomy in init file.
* Wed Oct 29 1997 Donnie Barnes djb@redhat.com
- fixed bad init symlinks
* Thu Oct 23 1997 Erik Troan ewt@redhat.com
- force it to use SIGCHLD instead of defunct SIGCLD
* Mon Oct 20 1997 Erik Troan ewt@redhat.com
- updated for chkconfig - added status, restart options to init script
* Tue Jun 17 1997 Erik Troan ewt@redhat.com
- built against glibc
* Wed Feb 19 1997 Erik Troan ewt@redhat.com
- Switch conditional from "axp" to "alpha"
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Jason Vas Dias