Hello,
I'm trying to package the cron-replacement fcron (http://
fcron.free.fr/), but it is somewhat more advanced than packages I
have done previously, and I can't find answers to the following
questions in the packaging tutorial.
fcron uses a setup very similar to cron, with a daemon and an
fcrontab command that allows ordinary users to update their tab. This
fcrontab command must be able to write to a spool directory, in order
to communicate with the daemon.
1) Since ordinary users can't write to the spool directory directly,
the fcrontab binary must be installed with setuid or setgid bits.
What's the preferred way to do this in Fink? From the postinst
scripts? (Any packages to look at as an example?)
2) Some setups (like the Debian setup of cron/fcron, but unlike the
Mac OS X setup of cron), use a dedicated fcron user and group, and
make the spool directory writable to this user. As such, the fcrontab
command can be suid-fcron instead of suid-root (the fcronsighup
command is still suid-root though, but it is probably much simpler).
Would this be advisable for Fink as well? If so, how can you create
an additional user? This seems to require a listing in the passwd
package.
3) Is there any documentation on the format for daemonic service
descriptions, as placed in the field DaemonicFile? (Or any packages
to look at as an example?)
Thanks and best regards,
Bruno De Fraine
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