--- cronie.org/cronie-1.5.5.ebuild	2020-07-28 15:39:06.000000000 -0600
+++ cronie.org/cronie-1.5.5.ebuild	2020-08-27 10:11:12.891651387 -0600
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ 
 
 LICENSE="ISC BSD BSD-2 GPL-2"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
-IUSE="+anacron +inotify pam selinux"
+IUSE="+anacron +inotify pam selinux vixiecron"
+
+RESTRICT="vixiecron? ( !anacron )"
 
 DEPEND="
 	pam? ( sys-libs/pam )
@@ -74,6 +76,24 @@ 
 
 	newconfd "${S}"/crond.sysconfig ${PN}
 
+if use vixiecron ; then
+	# Make cronie behave like the old vixiecron wrt crontab processing
+	# which uses /usr/sbin/run-crons to run the hourly, daily, weekly,
+	# and montly cron jobs.
+
+	insinto /etc
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.2-cron.deny" cron.deny
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-crontab-vixiecron" crontab
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.3-initd" ${PN}
+	newpamd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.4.3-pamd" crond
+
+	systemd_newunit contrib/cronie.systemd cronie.service
+
+	keepdir /etc/cron.d
+
+else
+
 	insinto /etc
 	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-crontab" crontab
 	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.2-cron.deny" cron.deny
@@ -102,6 +122,7 @@ 
 		insinto /etc/cron.d
 		doins contrib/dailyjobs
 	fi
+fi
 
 	einstalldocs
 }
--- cronie.org/files/cronie-crontab-vixiecron	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ cronie.org/files/cronie-crontab-vixiecron	2019-09-14 11:35:18.992499482 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ 
+# Global variables
+SHELL=/bin/bash
+PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+MAILTO=root
+HOME=/
+
+# For details see man 4 crontabs
+
+# Example of job definition:
+# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
+# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
+# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
+# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
+# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
+# |  |  |  |  |
+# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed
+
+# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
+59  *  * * *    root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
+9  3  * * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
+19 4  * * 6     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
+29 5  1 * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
+*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
+