Bug#766053: crontab

[Alexandre Detiste]

Hi,

I'm glad to hear from you back again;
If you still want it, you can upload 1.4.2 pending on Alioth
without this setGid helper that fix 10-some other bugs.

> I'm am strongly against a setuid helper. I have a roadmap written up.
Ok, where is this roadmap ?

> to get user timer units (other other units) into systemd
I think they are already there upstream, it's just that "systemd --user"
mode in Debian didn't got enough testing yet.
(see various bugs)

> a long way off.
Yeah, I had proposed that; 

[ https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/issues/15
[ do it the systemd way: have crontab when non-root write a timer & service in ~/.config/systemd/user/
[ and crontab -l & crontab -e re-assemble back the crontab from Description= fields

but that breaks setups when users want to switch back to vixie-cron
or use systemd-crno with original crontab.

> If you need user crontab you should just install cron.
Or just the "crontab" half; here Christian Kastner agrees that this could be an option:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/12/msg00304.html

By the way, this project is also used by Arch & Gentoo users;
and this setgid feature is from the start optional.


Alexandre Detiste