Updated package released.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-550 2005-07-12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : vixie-cron Version : 4.1 Release : 36.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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Mon Jul 11 2005 Jason Vas Dias - 4.1-36.FC3 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 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 mailing list
Updated vixie-cron package.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-032 2005-01-19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : vixie-cron Version : 4.1 Release : 20_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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Updated vixie-cron package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 - 4.1-20_FC3 - fixed all uninitialized variable warnings * Fri Oct 15 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 09 2004 Florian La Roche - 4.1-18 - no need to make user installed crontabs readable * Thu Sep 30 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 for pointing this out. * Wed Sep 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 beable to. Allowing root to use crontab. * Wed Sep 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 - 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 - 4.1-12 - Updated SELinux patch to use checkPasswdAccess * Tue Aug 31 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 - 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 - 4.1.9 - Removed 0600 mode enforcement as per Florian La Roche's request * Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 - 4.1.8 - Added '-i' option to crontab to prompt the user before deleting - crontab with '-r'. * Tue Aug 10 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 4.1.8 - Added documentation for '@' nicknames to crontab.5 - (bugs 107542, 89899). Also removed 'second when' (bug 59802). * Sun Aug 01 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 4.1.7 - fixed bug 128924: 'cron' log facility not being used * Fri Jul 30 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 - 4.1-5 - Added Buildrequires: pam-devel * Wed Jul 28 2004 Dan Walsh - 4.1-4 - Fix crontab to do SELinux checkaccess * Wed Jul 28 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 4.1-3 - Fixedbug 128701: cron fails to parse user 6th field in - system crontabs (patch15) * Tue Jul 27 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 4.1-2 - Changed 'Requires' dependency from 'pam-devel' to 'pam'. * Mon Jul 26 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 4.1-1 - Added PAM access control support. * Thu Jul 22 2004 Jason Vas Dias - 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 - 4.1-1 - Upgraded to ISC cron 4.1 * Thu Jul 01 2004 Jens Petersen - 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 - 3.0.1-93 - Add fixes from NSA * Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-92 - Add fixes from NSA * Tue Jun 15 2004 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-91 - Change patch to check SElinux properly, go back to using fname instead of uname * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee - rebuilt * Fri Jun 04 2004 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-89 - Fix patch * Fri Jun 04 2004 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-88 - Add patch to allow it to run in permissive mode. * Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee - rebuilt * Wed Feb 04 2004 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-86 - Add security_getenforce check. * Mon Jan 26 2004 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-85 - Fix call to is_selinux_enabled() * Mon Dec 08 2003 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-84 - change daemon flag to 1 * Wed Dec 03 2003 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-83 - Add daemon to make sure child is clean * Fri Nov 07 2003 Jens Petersen - 3.0.1-82 - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-pie.patch to build crond as pie (#108414) [Ulrich Drepper] - require libselinux and buildrequirelibselinux-devel * Thu Oct 30 2003 Dan Walsh - 3.0.1-81.sel - turn on selinux * Tue Sep 30 2003 Jens Petersen - 3.0.1-80 - add vixie-cron-3.0.1-vfork-105616.patch to use fork instead of vfork (#105616) [report and patch from
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