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

Sure, I will start by reviewing what OpenBSD and NetBSD have done.

Thanks a lot.

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 10:04 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:59 PM k sridhar <ksrdhrbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I was browsing the Ideas page for ways to contribute to BSD.
>> I came across this (which does not have any contact, I think).
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>> If it is still open, I wanted to check if I could try to do this.
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>> 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.
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>> I want to give it a shot if you all think that is ok.
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> 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.
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> Happy coding
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> Warner
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> Thanks a lot
>> k.sridhar (U.S resident in Virginia)
>> *Improve cron(8) and atrun(8)*
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>> *Currently, cron(8) and atrun(8) are outdated in their implementation.
>> Here are some directions for improvement:*
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>>    - *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.*
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>> *Requirements*
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>>    - *Strong knowledge of the C language and Unix API.*
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