Re: Contributing to one of the projects in the Ideas page

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:59 PM k sridhar <ksrdhrbsd@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I was browsing the Ideas page for ways to contribute to BSD.
> I came across this (which does not have any contact, I think).
>
> If it is still open, I wanted to check if I could try to do this.
>
> Briefly - I am in IT, and have been using UNIX since grad school in the
> early 90s (Solaris, briefly Ultrix/Aix and then different Linuxes
> and MacOS). C/C++/Java programming, scripting, installs, etc... and various
> other stuff.
>
> I want to give it a shot if you all think that is ok.
>

Nobody is working on this. Might be best to see what openbsd and  netbsd
have done first and start from there. It will be the first question people
ask when you start the review process.  I think yhey have some fixes and a
newer vixie cron import, but I'm not sure.

Happy coding

Warner

Thanks a lot
> k.sridhar (U.S resident in Virginia)
> *Improve cron(8) and atrun(8)*
>
> *Currently, cron(8) and atrun(8) are outdated in their implementation.
> Here are some directions for improvement:*
>
>    - *Update cron(8) to ISC cron with security fixes from OpenBSD.*
>    - *Integrate the atrun(8) functionality into cron(8), as it was done
>    in NetBSD.*
>
> *Requirements*
>
>    - *Strong knowledge of the C language and Unix API.*
>
>