Bug 24358

Currently it's neither possible to pass command line options to
the cron daemon nor can one choose which cron executable to run.
Although public discussion proves that there are different
preferences among users as well as a certain wish to escape from
fixed values (while preserving current behaviour as a default).

Fix: Apply the following patch which introduces two new rc.conf
variables named "cron_program" and "cron_flags".  The manpage
wording is copied over from the named section.



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XIndex: etc/rc
X===================================================================
XRCS file: /CVSREPO/fbsd/src/etc/rc,v
Xretrieving revision 1.240
Xdiff -u -u -r1.240 rc
X--- etc/rc	2000/11/21 04:21:54	1.240
X+++ etc/rc	2001/01/15 19:11:53
X@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
X [Nn][Oo])
X 	;;
X *)
X-	echo -n ' cron';	cron
X+	echo -n ' cron';	${cron_program:-cron} ${cron_flags}
X 	;;
X esac
X 
XIndex: etc/defaults/rc.conf
X===================================================================
XRCS file: /CVSREPO/fbsd/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf,v
Xretrieving revision 1.83
Xdiff -u -u -r1.83 rc.conf
X--- etc/defaults/rc.conf	2000/10/29 19:59:04	1.83
X+++ etc/defaults/rc.conf	2001/01/15 18:53:03
X@@ -295,6 +295,8 @@
X ##############################################################
X 
X cron_enable="YES"	# Run the periodic job daemon.
X+cron_program="cron"	# Which cron executable to run (if enabled).
X+cron_flags=""		# Which options to pass to the cron daemon.
X lpd_enable="NO"		# Run the line printer daemon.
X lpd_program="/usr/sbin/lpd"	# path to lpd, if you want a different one.
X lpd_flags=""		# Flags to lpd (if enabled).
XIndex: share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
X===================================================================
XRCS file: /CVSREPO/fbsd/src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5,v
Xretrieving revision 1.84
Xdiff -u -u -r1.84 rc.conf.5
X--- share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	2000/10/28 13:35:30	1.84
X+++ share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	2001/01/15 19:08:44
X@@ -1302,6 +1302,18 @@
X then run the
X .Xr cron 8
X daemon at system boot time.
X+.It Ar cron_program
X+(str) path to
X+.Xr cron 8
X+(default
X+.Pa cron ) .
X+.It Ar cron_flags
X+(str) if
X+.Ar cron_enable
X+is set to
X+.Ar YES ,
X+these are the flags to pass to
X+.Xr cron 8 .
X .It Ar lpd_program
X (str) path to
X .Xr lpd 8
END-of-cronvars.diff
exit
How-To-Repeat: 
Try to tell your FreeBSD system to run a different cron program
or to pass (e.g. some "-x KEY") command line parameters to it
without touching /etc/rc.  It's only possible by setting
"cron_enable=NO" and introducing a new /usr/local/etc/rc.d
script.  Which in turn might ask for another config file ...