[Initng] Vixie-cron fails to start

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
<please.no.spam.here at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I am using the latest ifiles from svn. daemon/vixie-cron fails with
>
> daemon/vixie-cron : /usr/sbin/cron: invalid option -- f
> daemon/vixie-cron : usage:  cron [-n] [-x
> [ext,sch,proc,pars,load,misc,test,bit]]
> daemon/vixie-cron | DAEMON_FAIL_START_RCODE
>
This show-stopper bug seems to have been ignored. And this is a
regression! The previous version of the ifile worked fine.
This is a diff between the old, working version and the new,
non-working version:

jorge at jorge /etc/initng/daemon $ diff -b vixie-cron.i ._cfg0000_vixie-cron.i
11,13c11
<         pid_file = /var/run/cron.pid;
<         exec daemon = /usr/sbin/cron;
<         forks;
---
>       exec daemon = /usr/sbin/cron -f;

Notice that the new version uses the non-existent option "-f".

So please, revert to the old version!
This is a serious bug. People should not be left without a cron daemon.

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