[Lvlug] cron woes on slackware

[dann s washko]

Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
ined only by the distros that use them.  WTF!
> 
> I downloaded the cron (Vixie) source and the security patches from
> Debian -- http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/cron -- but it dies
> horribly on my Slackware box.  Well, not horribly, but worse: silently.
> strace seems to be complaining about writing to /dev/log, which is not,
> on Slackware, a logging facility.  At least not on my old Slackware.
> 
> I can't even find a place to change the logging facility.
> 
> If anyone has any wisdom about using a better cron daemon on Slackware,
> I am eager to hear it.

I took a brief look at this last night, but did not get around to doing 
any compiling and such.  Slackware 10.x has /dev/log.  I'll keep looking 
into this, though.

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