vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) (12/10/88)
[ Got a complaint about the Newsgroups: selection? SEND MAIL, DON'T POST! In fact, there is NO REASON I can think of for ANY FOLLOWUPS to this article -- send me mail if you've got something to say. Thanks! --vix ] About two years ago I posted an alpha release of Cron V1.0 to Usenet in comp.sources.misc. For various reasons (damned unreliable Symmetric 375, mostly), I never took V1.0 any further than that. V2 is now ready for external testing. It is known to compile and run on Ultrix 3.0 with pcc, vcc, and gcc-1.31; it compiles and runs on the DEC Titan and other unproducts; it compiles and runs on 4.3BSD with pcc. Basically, it compiles and runs on everything I can try it out on. I would love to see it tested on a Sun 3 and a Sun 4, each on both 3.x and 4.0. I'd like to see it tested on a Pyramid. Any other 4BSD-oriented systems would be welcome. No raw SysV systems, though, unless you are prepared to finish a port begun by someone (me) who knows very little about SysV. I'm curious about more than just whether it compiles and runs. I want people who will proof-read the man pages, comment on the installation procedure, and just generally poke and prod and tell me the results of their poking and their prodding. Don't send mail: just grab it. It is on gatekeeper.dec.com (128.45.9.52) in ~ftp/pub/vixie, also available to UUCP neighbors of DECWRL in decwrl!~/pub/vixie: -r--r--r-- 1 vixie 53613 Dec 10 05:03 cron2-beta.tar.Z If you don't have FTP access and are not able to UUCP it, DON'T WORRY! It will be published in several interesting places Real Soon Now -- the only thing you'll miss is the early bugs. Again, I must plead: don't followup, send mail. I will respond. I will summarize. I will send a dollar to everyone who doesn't followup... No, no, I didn't mean that. But seriously, folks, no followups, okay? -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013