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Fedora Core 3: Enhancements and Minor Fixes for vixie-cron Tool

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2005
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The CentOS 7 cronie package update addresses several vulnerabilities to enhance both performance and reliability for end users.
Updated package released.

Summary

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.

- fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user

- further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):

invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user

- fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user

- further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):

invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user

- fix bug 160811: FC3 version compared >= FC4 version

4a9fab23c95a42cbfab6826da467dd9e SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.src.rpm

066fda9ad1b88913a439a43db1db5ff2 x86_64/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.x86_64.rpm

288bc505eb47611dc100fc916e003574 x86_64/debug/vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-36.FC3.x86_64.rpm

6ebbce985d0f6ded53fbb73c17b8f268 i386/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.i386.rpm

e220e2e902d1af9dec1fbd8862f9b0ca i386/debug/vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-36.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

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Name: vixie-cron
Version: 4.1
Release: 36.FC3
Summary: The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times.

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