1*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig BR2_PACKAGE_DCRON 2*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "dcron" 3*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork() 4*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS 5*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun dcron is a time-based job scheduler with anacron-like 7*4882a593Smuzhiyun features. It works as a background daemon that parses 8*4882a593Smuzhiyun individual crontab files and executes commands on behalf of 9*4882a593Smuzhiyun the users in question. 10*4882a593Smuzhiyun 11*4882a593Smuzhiyun Upon installation, this package will enable a system level 12*4882a593Smuzhiyun cron daemon with hourly, daily, weekly and monthly crontabs. 13*4882a593Smuzhiyun 14*4882a593Smuzhiyun However, it doesn't allow non root users to create their own 15*4882a593Smuzhiyun crontab file. This is because /var/spool/cron/crontabs is 16*4882a593Smuzhiyun non user writable. 17*4882a593Smuzhiyun 18*4882a593Smuzhiyun Typically, a crontab group is created on the system and 19*4882a593Smuzhiyun users allowed to create crontab entries are added into this 20*4882a593Smuzhiyun group, while crontab executable is owned by root:crontab 21*4882a593Smuzhiyun with sgid bit enabled. 22*4882a593Smuzhiyun 23*4882a593Smuzhiyun http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/dcron.html 24