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Copyright (C) 2003 Dale Mellor
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See the end for copying conditions.
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This is version 0.99.2 of the mcron program (the second 1.0.0 release
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candidate), designed and written by Dale Mellor, which replaces and hugely
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enhances Vixie cron. It is functionally complete, production quality code (did
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you expect less?), but has not received much testing yet. It has only been built
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on a GNU/Linux system, and will most likely fail on others (but you never
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know...).
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IMPORTANT NOTICES
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Read the BUGS file.
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Do not (yet) install this software on a machine which relies for its functioning
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on its current set of crontabs.
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The package must be installed by root.
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Before installing this package for the first time, it is necessary to terminate
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any running cron daemons on your system. If your old cron is not Vixie or
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accurately Vixie compatible (files in /var/cron/tabs*, /var/cron/allow,
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/var/cron/deny, /etc/crontab, /var/run/cron.pid) then you will need to clear out
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all old crontabs and make new ones afresh.
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If your old cron is Vixie, or very similar, mcron should fall right into place
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where your old cron was (the binaries cron and crontab will be replaced), and
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you should be able to continue to use your existing crontabs without noticing
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any changes. Bear in mind that if you use /etc/crontab, then changes to this
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file will *not* take immediate effect (this is the 1% incompatibility between
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mcron and Vixie cron); you may want to add a comment to this file with a note to
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this effect. Alternatively, use the new mcron program, it's better!
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If you don't want to clobber your existing cron executables, you can specify the
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--program-prefix option to configure with a prefix ending in a non-alphabetic
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character, for example "m.", and then run the programs as m.mcron, m.cron and
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m.crontab.
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See the file INSTALL for generic building and installation instructions.
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After installation, read the info file for full instructions for use (type
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`info mcron' at the command line).
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Known bugs are noted in the BUGS file, and features which might be implemented
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sometime sooner or later are noted in the TODO file.
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Please send all other bug reports either via Savannah at
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https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=mcron
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or by electronic mail to:
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dale_mellor@users.sourceforge.net
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Mcron is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
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The mcron development home page is at http://www.nongnu.org/mcron.
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Copyright (C) 2003 Dale Mellor
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Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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of this document, or of portions of it,
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under the above conditions, provided also that they
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carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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