Bug#766053: crontab

[Shawn Landden]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Alexandre Detiste <
alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 am not a Debian developer. I have installed 1.4.2 but I think you should
just join pkg-systemd-maintainers and upload.

>
> > 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
>
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