1 $Id: INSTALL,v 1.1 1994/01/05 20:40:11 jtc Exp $
3 *** This does not work on ATT SysV yet, and given the feature overlap,
6 Read the comments at the top of the Makefile, then edit the area marked
9 Edit config.h. The stuff I expect you to change is down a bit from the
10 top of the file, but it's clearly marked. Also look at pathnames.h.
12 You don't have to create the /var/cron or /var/cron/tabs directories, since
13 both the daemon and the `crontab' program will do this the first time they
14 run if they don't exist. You do need to have a /var, though -- just "mkdir
15 /var" if you don't have one, or you can "mkdir /usr/var; ln -s /usr/var /var"
16 if you expect your /var to have a lot of stuff in it.
18 You will also need /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/bin directories unless you
19 change the Makefile. These will have to be created by hand, but if you are
20 a long-time Usenet user you probably have them already. /usr/local/man is
21 where I keep my man pages, but I have the source for `man' and you probably
22 do not. Therefore you may have to put the man pages into /usr/man/manl,
23 which will be hard since there will be name collisions. (Note that the man
24 command was originally written by Bill Joy before he left Berkeley, and it
25 contains no AT&T code, so it is in UUNET's archive of freely-distributable
28 LINUX note: /usr/include/paths.h on some linux systems shows _PATH_SENDMAIL
29 to be /usr/bin/sendmail even though sendmail is installed in /usr/lib.
30 you should check this out.
38 Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have
39 a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.
41 Edit your /usr/lib/crontab file into little pieces -- see the CONVERSION file
44 Use the `crontab' command to install all the little pieces you just created.
45 Some examples (see below before trying any of these!)
47 crontab -u uucp -r /usr/lib/uucp/crontab.src
48 crontab -u news -r /usr/lib/news/crontab.src
49 crontab -u root -r /usr/adm/crontab.src
51 Notes on above examples: (1) the .src files are copied at the time the
52 command is issued; changing the source files later will have no effect until
53 they are reinstalled with another `crontab -r' command. (2) The crontab
54 command will affect the crontab of the person using the command unless `-u
55 USER' is given; `-u' only works for root. When using most `su' commands
56 under most BSD's, `crontab' will still think of you as yourself even though
57 you may think of yourself as root -- so use `-u' liberally. (3) the `-r'
58 option stands for `replace'; check the man page for crontab(1) for other
61 Kill your existing cron daemon -- do `ps aux' and look for /etc/cron.
63 Edit your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, looking for the line that starts up
64 /etc/cron. Comment it out and add a line to start the new cron daemon
65 -- usually /usr/local/etc/cron, unless you changed it in the Makefile.
67 Start up this cron daemon yourself as root. Just type /usr/local/etc/cron
68 (or whatever); no '&' is needed since the daemon forks itself and the
69 process you executed returns immediately.
71 ATT notes: for those people unfortunate enough to be stuck on a AT&T UNIX,
72 you will need the public-domain "libndir", found in the B News source and in
73 any comp.sources.unix archive. You will also need to hack the code some.