# I've only worked on this till it compiled and worked. So maybe there are some things which should be done but I've missed # restart using 'killall -TERM fcron; fcron -b # use convert-fcrontab to update fcrontab files { stdenv, fetchurl, perl }: stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "fcron-3.0.4"; src = fetchurl { url = http://fcron.free.fr/archives/fcron-3.0.4.src.tar.gz; sha256 = "15kgphsfa0nqgjd8yxyz947x2xyljj4iyh298kw4c8bz6iznqxn8"; }; buildInputs = [ perl ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-sendmail=/var/setuid-wrappers/sendmail" "--with-editor=/var/run/current-system/sw/bin/vi" "--with-bootinstall=no" "--sysconfdir=/etc" # fcron would have been default user/grp "--with-username=root" "--with-groupname=root" # fcron must not try to verify that sendmail has already been installed int /var/setuid-wrappers/sendmail "--disable-checks" ]; installTargets = "install-staged"; # install does also try to change permissions of /etc/* files preConfigure = '' sed -i 's@/usr/bin/env perl@${perl}/bin/perl@g' configure script/* # Don't let fcron create the group fcron, nix(os) should do this sed -i '2s@.*@exit 0@' script/user-group # --with-bootinstall=no shoud do this, didn't work. So just exit the script before doing anything sed -i '2s@.*@exit 0@' script/boot-install # also don't use chown or chgrp for documentation (or whatever) when installing find -type f | xargs sed -i -e 's@^\(\s\)*chown@\1:@' -e 's@^\(\s\)*chgrp@\1:@' ''; patchPhase = '' # don't try to create /etc/fcron.{allow,deny,conf} sed -i -e 's@test -f $(DESTDIR)$(ETC)/fcron.conf @ # @' \ -e 's@if test ! -f $(DESTDIR)$(ETC)/fcron.allow@ # @' Makefile.in ''; meta = { description="A command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron"; homepage = http://fcron.free.fr; license = "GPLv2"; }; }