cron for DEBIAN ---------------------- This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of Paul Vixie's cron subsystem. This package was put together by Ian Jackson , from the standard sources to 3.0pl1, as posted to comp.sources.unix. Ian obtained them from src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume27/vixie-cron. The changes are essentially the configuration for Debian Linux in the Makefile and pathnames.h, and the addition of support for the Debian package maintenance scheme in the form of various files (now in the debian directory). The `checksecurity' script installed in /usr/sbin in the binary distribution (found in ./debian in the source) was (probably) written by Ian Jackson, and has been modified by Steve Greenland. File locations that are different than that indicated in the cron distributions README: user crontabs: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* log file: /var/log/cron.log allow file: /etc/cron.allow deny file: /etc/cron.deny Note that the location of the log file can be changed via syslog.conf. 1998: Added reading of crontab fragments from /etc/cron.d to support other Debian package cron requirements. Files follow /etc/crontab format (i.e. with user field), must meet run-parts(8) naming convention (alphanumeric, underscore, hyphen only). This package is now maintained by Steve Greenland .