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<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<title>From version 2.9.6 to 2.9.7</title>
- <listitem>
- <para>Added time zone support (option timezone).</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Better support FreeBSD's users and groups modifications in fcron's install scripts.</para>
- </listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Fixed a bug which used to make fcron send empty mails on very recent systems.</para>
+ <para>Added time zone support (option timezone).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Added some casts in fileconf.c and save.c (to avoid some warnings when compiling on HP-UX).</para>
+ <para>Better support FreeBSD's users and groups modifications in
+ fcron's install scripts.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Fixed a bug which used to make fcron send empty mails on very
+ recent systems.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Added some casts in fileconf.c and save.c (to avoid some
+ warnings when compiling on HP-UX).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<title>From version 2.9.5.1 to 2.9.6</title>
<listitem>
- <para>fixed the bug which made jobs run an hour too early after
- a daylight saving time change.</para>
- <para>Added detailed explanations about when a job will run
- when there is a DST change in the FAQ.</para>
+ <para>fixed the bug which made jobs run an hour too early after a
+ daylight saving time change.</para>
+ <para>Added detailed explanations about when a job will run when
+ there is a DST change in the FAQ.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>fixed fcrondyn's "Unknown command" bug on x86_64
- (thanks go to Georgi Georgiev).</para>
+ <para>fixed fcrondyn's "Unknown command" bug on x86_64 (thanks go to
+ Georgi Georgiev).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>made fcrontab behave better when there is no space left
- in the spool directory (used to truncate the fcrontab source file).
+ <para>made fcrontab behave better when there is no space left in the
+ spool directory (used to truncate the fcrontab source file).
</para>
<listitem>
- <para>Added a script, check_system_crontabs, to emulate Vixie cron's
+ <para>Added a script, check_system_crontabs, to emulate Vixie cron's
behavior about /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d. Please have a look
at the top of script/check_system_crontabs for more information.
</para>
<para>HP-UX support (needs more tests).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>bug fix : restore umask even if fcron runs unprivileged.</para>
+ <para>bug fix : restore umask even if fcron runs
+ unprivileged.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<title>From version 2.9.5 to 2.9.5.1</title>
<listitem>
- <para>Fixed serious security vulnerabilities in fcronsighup,
- and improved fcronsighup's overall security (drop privileges,
- better check user inputs, etc).</para>
+ <para>Fixed serious security vulnerabilities in fcronsighup, and
+ improved fcronsighup's overall security (drop privileges, better
+ check user inputs, etc).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Fixed several typos in the doc.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Updated debian package scripts (patch from debian maintainer).</para>
+ <para>Updated debian package scripts (patch from debian
+ maintainer).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Merged debian/ dir for debian package.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Mail reports : put the same username in the To: field than
- the one we give as recipient to the MTA. mailto can now also
- be a fully qualified email address.</para>
+ <para>Mail reports : put the same username in the To: field than the
+ one we give as recipient to the MTA. mailto can now also be a
+ fully qualified email address.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>changed a log message : a job which has ended without error
- is reported has "completed" (which is more appropriated than "terminated").
+ <para>changed a log message : a job which has ended without error is
+ reported has "completed" (which is more appropriated than
+ "terminated").
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Internal changes in log.c: code is more segmented, and code
- has been added to be able to send log message to fcrondyn. Syslog
- messages are now never longer than MAX_MSG (even with string from
- strerror()).</para>
+ has been added to be able to send log message to fcrondyn. Syslog
+ messages are now never longer than MAX_MSG (even with string from
+ strerror()).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Fixed a bug which happened on Daylight Saving Time change
- on some systems. It would make fcron run into a nasty infinite loop.
- Added a sanity check in set_nextexe() to avoid such things.</para>
+ <para>Fixed a bug which happened on Daylight Saving Time change on
+ some systems. It would make fcron run into a nasty infinite loop.
+ Added a sanity check in set_nextexe() to avoid such
+ things.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Fixed a crash bug: in 2.9.4, if a user run ls_exeq when
- a job is running and has been removed from its fcrontab,
- it makes fcron crash.</para>
+ <para>Fixed a crash bug: in 2.9.4, if a user run ls_exeq when a job
+ is running and has been removed from its fcrontab, it makes fcron
+ crash.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Fixed a small bug : scripts were supposing perl was in /usr/bin.</para>
+ <para>Fixed a small bug : scripts were supposing perl was in
+ /usr/bin.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Fixed a bug which caused the pid of a child process
- to be incorrectly read</para>
+ <para>Fixed a bug which caused the pid of a child process to be
+ incorrectly read</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fixed memory leak: some strings returned by log.c:make_msg()
weren't always free()d.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>bug fix: fcrondyn commands renice and kill used not to handle correctly
- the case where a job has several entries in exeq (exesev jobs).</para>
+ <para>bug fix: fcrondyn commands renice and kill used not to handle
+ correctly the case where a job has several entries in exeq
+ (exesev jobs).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<title>From version 2.9.3 to 2.9.4</title>
<listitem>
<para>Merged support for SE Linux (patch from Russell Coker : thanks
- !)</para>
+ !)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Work on the documentation (fixed spelling mistakes, tried to
- make things clearer in fcrontab.5) (thanks Bill Wohler for your help
- !)</para>
+ make things clearer in fcrontab.5) (thanks Bill Wohler for your
+ help !)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Changed the subject line of mail reports : it now contains the
- subject line, and is very similar to vixie cron's one.</para>
+ subject line, and is very similar to vixie cron's one.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added a sum-up at the end of ./configure.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fix : "makewhatis" bug is fixed -- at last !</para>
- <para>In fact, the problems encountered were due to an abusively ignored
- signal SIGPIPE.</para>
+ <para>In fact, the problems encountered were due to an abusively
+ ignored signal SIGPIPE.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fix : possible crash of fcron when trying to save a file
- if there was no space left on device.</para>
+ if there was no space left on device.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fix : we don't consider '-' and '_' as word delimiters for
- a username before the command anymore, since many programs have one
- of these characters in their name.</para>
+ a username before the command anymore, since many programs have
+ one of these characters in their name.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fix : option first was broken in fcron 2.9.3.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fixed a little typo in an error message
- (could->couldn't)</para>
+ (could->couldn't)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>bug fix : do not ignore the last line of a fcrontab if there is no
- \n before the end of file.</para>
+ <para>bug fix : do not ignore the last line of a fcrontab if there
+ is no \n before the end of file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fixed compile on SunOS 5.9 .</para>
<para>Fcron now compiles on MacOS X.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>added some $srcdir to be able (again ;) ) to run configure from another directory.</para>
+ <para>added some $srcdir to be able (again ;) ) to run configure
+ from another directory.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perf improvement : use buffer for i/o in run_job().</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added fcron's option -q to control the lavg and serial queue
- sizes.
+ sizes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fcrondyn's ls_lavgq, ls_serialq and ls_exeq are now
- functional.</para>
+ functional.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>mailto can now be set to a non-real user (for ex., an
- alias).</para>
+ alias).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fcron now calls shutdown() when a connection from fcrondyn is
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>use open() instead of fopen() to write files, for more
- security.</para>
+ security.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fcrontab sets euid=uid before running the editor. This is
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fix : using DESTDIR with make did not work with the
- doc.</para>
+ doc.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Code clean : changed macros to make parameters clearly
<listitem>
<para>All the documentation has been ported to SGML DocBook.</para>
<para>It results on a much better HTML version, which I recommand
- you use. It is installed by default in fcron documentation directory
- (for instance, on my system :
- <filename>/usr/share/doc/fcron-X.X.X/</filename>).</para>
+ you use. It is installed by default in fcron documentation
+ directory (for instance, on my system :
+ <filename>/usr/share/doc/fcron-X.X.X/</filename>).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Fcrontab.5 has been updated and improved. Some examples have
<title>From version 0.9.3 to 0.9.4</title>
<listitem>
<para>security improvement : after the (horrible) root exploit found
- in version 0.9.3, I decided to improve fcron/fcrontab's
- security. I've included some strong (I hope :)) ) tests in fcron
- to ensure that only root can run commands as superuser and use
- option runas. Even an corrupted fcrontab should not be able to
- get root's privileges. Pretty reassuring, isn't it ?</para>
+ in version 0.9.3, I decided to improve fcron/fcrontab's security.
+ I've included some strong (I hope :)) ) tests in fcron to ensure
+ that only root can run commands as superuser and use option
+ runas. Even an corrupted fcrontab should not be able to get
+ root's privileges. Pretty reassuring, isn't it ?</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>runfreq(1) lines have been replaced and extended by a new kind
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fixed : a tmp file was not removed after a "fcron
--z"</para>
+ -z"</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>bug fixed in fcrontab : an expression of the form "start-stop"
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support of options "lavg*", in order to run a job under a
- specific 1, 5 and/or 15 minutes system load average
- value(s). When the job should be run, it is placed in a specific
- queue and the load average is checked regularly until the right
- value(s) is/are got. The options "lavgor" and "lavgand" permits
- users to tell fcron if they prefer to perform a logic OR or AND
- between the 1, 5 and 15 load average values. The option "until"
- can be use to force the execution of a job after a determined
- timeout if the right conditions to run the job are not
- filled.</para>
+ specific 1, 5 and/or 15 minutes system load average value(s).
+ When the job should be run, it is placed in a specific queue and
+ the load average is checked regularly until the right value(s)
+ is/are got. The options "lavgor" and "lavgand" permits users to
+ tell fcron if they prefer to perform a logic OR or AND between
+ the 1, 5 and 15 load average values. The option "until" can be
+ use to force the execution of a job after a determined timeout if
+ the right conditions to run the job are not filled.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>fcron now uses putenv() in place of setenv() (setenv() is not
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