---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-550
2005-07-12
---------------------------------------------------------------------Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : vixie-cron
Version     : 4.1                      
Release     : 36.FC3                  
Summary     : The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times.
Description :
The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a
standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.
Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration
options to the standard version of cron.

---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information:

- fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user
- further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):
     invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user

---------------------------------------------------------------------* Mon Jul 11 2005 Jason Vas Dias  - 4.1-36.FC3

- fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user
- further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):
     invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user
- fix bug 160811: FC3 version compared >= FC4 version


---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from:
  
4a9fab23c95a42cbfab6826da467dd9e  SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.src.rpm
066fda9ad1b88913a439a43db1db5ff2  x86_64/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.x86_64.rpm
288bc505eb47611dc100fc916e003574  x86_64/debug/vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-36.FC3.x86_64.rpm
6ebbce985d0f6ded53fbb73c17b8f268  i386/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.i386.rpm
e220e2e902d1af9dec1fbd8862f9b0ca  i386/debug/vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-36.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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Fedora Core 3 Update: vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3

July 12, 2005
Updated package released.

Summary

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a

standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.

Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration

options to the standard version of cron.

- fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user

- further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):

invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user

- fix bug 162887: allow multiple /etc/cron.d crontabs for *system* user

- further fix for bug 154920 / CAN-2005-1038 ( crontab -e ):

invoke editor and copy operation as non-root user

- fix bug 160811: FC3 version compared >= FC4 version

4a9fab23c95a42cbfab6826da467dd9e SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.src.rpm

066fda9ad1b88913a439a43db1db5ff2 x86_64/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.x86_64.rpm

288bc505eb47611dc100fc916e003574 x86_64/debug/vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-36.FC3.x86_64.rpm

6ebbce985d0f6ded53fbb73c17b8f268 i386/vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3.i386.rpm

e220e2e902d1af9dec1fbd8862f9b0ca i386/debug/vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-36.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Name : vixie-cron
Version : 4.1
Release : 36.FC3
Summary : The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times.

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