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Michael Scherer
9e7b02aaee make cron module work on solaris
Cron on solaris do not take the same
set of option than vixie cron on linux, and
among the biggest difference, root cannot set
the crontab of a user directly from a file. Thus the
use of su to run the crontab command. Fix issue #4648
2013-10-31 19:58:26 +01:00
Michael Scherer
506ce6a809 remove unused function 2013-10-31 19:58:26 +01:00
James Cammarata
ceddc37f07 Fix for the cron module on FreeBSD
Apparently crontab on freebsd does not like the file path coming before
the "-u username" portion of the command to install the crontab
2013-08-24 21:37:10 -05:00
Michael DeHaan
8cc13590b4 Make exceptions handling python 2.4 compatible. 2013-07-29 13:27:16 -04:00
Michael DeHaan
1acd9b6325 Update CHANGELOG 2013-07-21 10:12:28 -04:00
Patrick Callahan
8f14ffe56b Bug fixes and enhancements.
Bugs:
(1) no longer allow empty jobs
(2) strip the header added by crontab package used in openSuSE and SuSE
(3) try not to leak temp files when things go wrong
(4) issue returning job names under certain conditions

Enhancements:
(1) Allow all special times not just reboot.
(2) Fail earlier by performing more input validation
(3) Add feature to allow removing cron file under /etc/cron.d

ToDo:
(1) Validate times (minute, hour, ...)
(2) Strip white space from fields such as name and job such that name=foo equals name=' foo'.
(3) More testing
2013-07-09 03:21:40 +00:00
Jan-Piet Mens
5c69918d53 DOCS: standardize on EXAMPLES (a.k.a. Docs-JumboPatch JetLag Edition)
Migrated all examples: in DOCUMENTATION=''' string to standalone EXAMPLES=''' string
  Added deprecation warning to moduledev.rst and remove deprecated example from it
  Fixed up a few typos and uppercased some acronyms.
  add consistency to how EXAMPLES are formatted
2013-06-15 20:54:25 +02:00
Michael DeHaan
391fb98ee2 Allow modules to be categorized, and also sort them when generating the documentation. 2013-04-28 15:03:45 -04:00
Renamed from library/cron (Browse further)