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@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +This is version 0.99.1 of the mcron program, designed and written by Dale +Mellor, which replaces and hugely enhances Vixie cron. It is functionally +complete, production quality code (did you expect less?), but has not received +much testing yet and contains known bugs. It has only been built on a GNU/Linux +system, and will most likely fail on others (but you never know...). + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +IMPORTANT NOTICES + +Read the BUGS file. + +Do not (yet) install this software on a machine which relies for its functioning +on its current set of crontabs. + +The package must be installed by root. + +Before installing this package for the first time, it is necessary to terminate +any running cron daemons on your system. If your old cron is not accurately +Vixie compatible (files in /var/cron/tabs*, /var/cron/allow, /var/cron/deny, +/etc/crontab, /var/run/cron.pid) then you will need to clear out all old +crontabs and make new ones afresh. + +If your old cron is Vixie, or very similar, mcron should fall right into place +where your old cron was (the binaries cron and crontab will be replaced), and +you should be able to continue to use your existing crontabs without noticing +any changes. Bear in mind that if you use /etc/crontab, then changes to this +file will *not* take immediate effect (this is the 1% incompatibility between +mcron and Vixie cron); you may want to add a comment to this file with a note to +this effect. Alternatively, use the new mcron program, it's better! + +If you don't want to clobber your existing cron executables, you can specify the +--program-prefix option to configure with a prefix ending in a non-alphabetic +character, for example "m.", and then run the programs as m.mcron, m.cron and +m.crontab. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +See the file INSTALL for building and installation instructions. + +After installation, read the info file for full instructions for use (type +`info mcron' at the command line). + +Known bugs are noted in the BUGS file, and features which might be implemented +sometime sooner or later are noted in the TODO file. + +Please send all other bug reports by electronic mail to: + dale_mellor@users.sourceforge.net + +Mcron is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. |