updating cron and atrun

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 20:59, Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Also note that it's not something that is high effort at all, because
> others have already implemented it, and did so in less than 700 lines of
> code, with license block included.  I'd say bringing OpenBSD cron is a low
> hanging fruit if someone wants to do something in the project, and IMHO
> there is no reason to remove the functionality because of that.
>
> I have worked on bringing OpenBSD cron to FreeBSD a while ago (I think it
> was ~2012) but never committed it because subversion made my life hard
> (well, partially -- I should have created a branch on user/ but I didn't)
> to keep my local patches on the move to the point that eventually I have
> gave up maintaining it.

Hm, just a note - vixie mentioned about putting his base cron online
and ifdef'ing in freebsd bits. The twitter thread talks about openbsd.

https://twitter.com/paulvixie/status/1214286886094589952

Maybe reach out to him? :)


-a