Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <j...@computer.org> wrote: 

> For those reviewing/thinking on helping with this RFH bug it is worth
> noting that Vixie's cron is rather dead upstream, there have been no
> changes post the 4.1 release available at
> http://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/ (dated january 2004)
> 
> In the meantime, the Red Hat / Fedora folks have forked off vixie-cron
> into cronie "recently" (2008, IIRC) and this project [1] has since
> been adopted by  Mandriva and Gentoo folks too. Maybe cron should be

After some online search I have also found some cron-like packages
inside debian:

 * bcron = Bruce's cron system
         binary package sizes: 60 kByte + 8 kByte
         popcon = 25 Inst.
         upstream does not exist
         DM is active

 * fcron = cron-like with extended capabilities
         binary package size: 257 kByte
         popcon = 137 inst.
         DM seems to be less active
         upstream is very active:
           in Debian is version 3.0.1, upstream is 3.0.6!

I would say the easiest way would be using fcron as replacement of cron.

Fondest regards,
 Joachim Wiedorn

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