1/* Copyright 1993,1994 by Paul Vixie 2 * All rights reserved 3 * 4 * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or 5 * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't 6 * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this 7 * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No 8 * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this 9 * software; use at your own risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to 10 * anyone resulting from the use of this software rests entirely with the 11 * user. 12 * 13 * Send bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, flames, etc., and 14 * I'll try to keep a version up to date. I can be reached as follows: 15 * Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> uunet!decwrl!vixie!paul 16 */ 17 18$FreeBSD$ 19 20Read the comments at the top of the Makefile, then edit the area marked 21'configurable stuff'. 22 23Edit config.h. The stuff I expect you to change is down a bit from the 24top of the file, but it's clearly marked. Also look at pathnames.h. 25 26You don't have to create the /var/cron or /var/cron/tabs directories, since 27both the daemon and the `crontab' program will do this the first time they 28run if they don't exist. You do need to have a /var, though -- just "mkdir 29/var" if you don't have one, or you can "mkdir /usr/var; ln -s /usr/var /var" 30if you expect your /var to have a lot of stuff in it. 31 32You will also need /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/bin directories unless you 33change the Makefile. These will have to be created by hand, but if you are 34a long-time Usenet user you probably have them already. /usr/local/man is 35where I keep my man pages, but I have the source for `man' and you probably 36do not. Therefore you may have to put the man pages into /usr/man/manl, 37which will be hard since there will be name collisions. (Note that the man 38command was originally written by Bill Joy before he left Berkeley, and it 39contains no AT&T code, so it is in UUNET's archive of freely-distributable 40BSD code.) 41 42LINUX note: /usr/include/paths.h on some linux systems shows _PATH_SENDMAIL 43 to be /usr/bin/sendmail even though sendmail is installed in /usr/lib. 44 you should check this out. 45 46say: 47 make all 48 49su and say: 50 make install 51 52Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have 53a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it. 54 55Edit your /usr/lib/crontab file into little pieces -- see the CONVERSION file 56for help on this. 57 58Use the `crontab' command to install all the little pieces you just created. 59Some examples (see below before trying any of these!) 60 61 crontab -u uucp -r /usr/lib/uucp/crontab.src 62 crontab -u news -r /usr/lib/news/crontab.src 63 crontab -u root -r /usr/adm/crontab.src 64 65Notes on above examples: (1) the .src files are copied at the time the 66command is issued; changing the source files later will have no effect until 67they are reinstalled with another `crontab -r' command. (2) The crontab 68command will affect the crontab of the person using the command unless `-u 69USER' is given; `-u' only works for root. When using most `su' commands 70under most BSD's, `crontab' will still think of you as yourself even though 71you may think of yourself as root -- so use `-u' liberally. (3) the `-r' 72option stands for `replace'; check the man page for crontab(1) for other 73possibilities. 74 75Kill your existing cron daemon -- do `ps aux' and look for /etc/cron. 76 77Edit your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, looking for the line that starts up 78/etc/cron. Comment it out and add a line to start the new cron daemon 79-- usually /usr/local/etc/cron, unless you changed it in the Makefile. 80 81Start up this cron daemon yourself as root. Just type /usr/local/etc/cron 82(or whatever); no '&' is needed since the daemon forks itself and the 83process you executed returns immediately. 84 85ATT notes: for those people unfortunate enough to be stuck on a AT&T UNIX, 86you will need the public-domain "libndir", found in the B News source and in 87any comp.sources.unix archive. You will also need to hack the code some. 88