On 11/11/10 20:26, Alex Matviychuk wrote:
Thanks to this thread I decided to look at both dcron and fcron. First google result for dcron led me to this:
(As Loui noted, many of those points are changed by the passage of seven years. Distros probably use different crons now; and fcron has improved in the meantime; and dcron might have changed, I'm not sure.)
In response to the initial concern about a bug in dcron, don't we have anyone in our userbase that could take a look at the dcron code? As far as updates, I wouldn't expect a basic mature package to be updated more than once or twice a year. Update frequency alone says nothing about the quality of the code.
I dispute that something that doesn't always schedule jobs at the frequency the user requests (this user often being root) -- and that we as a community don't even understand when/why -- is secure.
(It leaves me somewhat wondering about mature too, if no one's noticed (or fixed anyhow) this bug before. I wouldn't assume it's the only bug (although it might be).)
-Isaac
