Bug 84357 – Gentoo Linux Cron Guide: duplicated information

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Sascha Silbe 2005-03-06 18:08:38 UTC]

From the Gentoo Linux Cron Guide:

> Important: If neither /etc/fcron/fcron.allow nor /etc/fcron/fcron.deny exist, all users in the cron group will be allowed to use frontab.
> The default for fcron is to allow all users in the cron group access to fcrontab.

The second sentence is redundant. BTW, the first one contains a typo ("frontab" should be "fcrontab")

[Comment 1 Eric Brown 2005-03-17 20:19:17 UTC]

Thanks, I'll post a patch soon.

[Comment 2 Eric Brown 2005-03-17 20:44:05 UTC]

Actually, it's not redundant, fcron comes with fcron.allow and deny, but fcron.allow contains the keyword "all".

[Comment 3 Eric Brown 2005-03-17 20:47:12 UTC]

I'm too lazy to copy my patch over to this windows box to upload it.
Here's the patch to correct "frontab", made my editing cron-guide.xml.new, and running diff -urN cron-guide.xml.new cron-guide.xml

--- cron-guide.xml.new  2005-03-17 23:31:38.436330544 -0500
+++ cron-guide.xml      2005-03-17 23:23:40.342011928 -0500
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
 <impo>
 <b>If neither <path>/etc/fcron/fcron.allow</path> nor
 <path>/etc/fcron/fcron.deny</path> exist, all users in the cron group will be
-allowed to use fcrontab</b>.<br/>
+allowed to use frontab</b>.<br/>
 The default for fcron is to <b>allow all users</b> in the cron group access to
 fcrontab.
 </impo>


Someone update cvs please :D

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-03-18 01:48:30 UTC]

Thanks. I've rewritten the second sentence to be more clear also.