[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Cron

[rmgolbeck]

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Ryan Golbeck <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: GNU Cron
System name: cron
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

This project has not yet been started.

The purpose of the project is to create a replacement for Vixie cron that is 
backward compatable with Vixie cron to maintain the usefulness of currently 
written scripts.

Reasoning:

Vixie cron has been a much exploited application, and new vulnerabilities are 
still being discovered.  In addition, the maintainer has not made an update to 
this package since 1993.  This is causing forked efforts by distributions to 
keep cron up-to-date security wise for their distributions.

Cron is a critical utility of a GNU system, so it is important that this 
package be well written, secure, and well maintained.


There are three primary goals of this project:
1) Establishing a well coded and security concious cron daemon.
2) Be easy to work with from scripts and simple to use for users while 
retaining compatability with current cron daemons.
3) To provide advanced and extended features for the GNU/Hurd operating system.