Fedora 14 Update: cronie-1.4.5-4.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-18956
2010-12-17 07:51:12
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Name        : cronie
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.4.5
Release     : 4.fc14
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/cronie
Summary     : Cron daemon for executing programs at set times
Description :
Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at
scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and
has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and
SELinux.

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Update Information:

Quite complicated to test. If you have for example weekly scripts, which runs longer (for hours), you can have troubles with locked anacron. For more details check bug report.

For testers: try usual use-cases for finding regressions. Run daily, use crontab, ... With selinux enforcing!




Quite complicated to test. If you have for example weekly scripts, which runs longer (for hours), you can have troubles with locked anacron. For more details check bug report. 

For testers: try usual use-cases for finding regressions. Run daily, use crontab, ...
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 16 2010 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.4.5-4
- 663193 rewritten selinux support
* Fri Dec 10 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 1.4.5-3
- do not lock jobs that fall out of allowed range - 661966
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #661966 - Jobs dropped due to falling out of allowed hour range should not be locked
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661966
  [ 2 ] Bug #663331 - Cronie is having a hard time with SELinux in Rawhide.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663331
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cronie' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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