[Initng] Vixie-cron fails to start

[Ian Lee]

On Sun, 25 May 2008 15:34:51 -0300
"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
Updated!

Should have right argument now 

Ian