-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-17672 2013-09-26 04:51:04 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : cronie Product : Fedora 20 Version : 1.4.11 Release : 4.fc20 URL : https://fedorahosted.org/cronie Summary : Cron daemon for executing programs at set times Description : Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and SELinux.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

Cron jobs sometimes don't run e.g. when environment is using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

Cron daemon unit file should use KillMode=process to kill dependent processes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #919290 - should cronie's systemd script use "KillMode=process"? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919290 [ 2 ] Bug #995590 - Cron job runs, but doesn't do anything https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995590 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cronie' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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