Cron cannot handle time jumps – replacement?

[Nicolai Henriksen]

The cron included (Vixie Cron) seems to have well known and very serious bugs regarding daylight savings changes and sudden changes in time.

Any suggestions what to use instead and how?

– Nicolai

[Nicolai Henriksen]

To answer my own question: I downloaded the newest Wixie Cron, 4.0 (circa 2004!), and made a recipe and it works.

All time related bugs are resolved in this version.

One challenge was that the source is distributed as a shar archive and I did not know how to let bitbake understand that.

Another was to re-create the Multi-Tech patch files.

– Nicolai

[Mike Fiore]

Nicolai, that’s great news! I’m glad the issue has been resolved.

Would you be willing to share the recipe you wrote up with us?

[Nicolai Henriksen]

Sure!

Here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q1qxdn65g2cmsky/H7kZrQ_b_a

I cannor find the link I originally used to download the source but it was a shar archive and I think is was from Vixies current employers FTP site.

But the tar.gz file included in the linked dir contains the unmodified source from the shar.

– Nicolai

• This reply was modified 10 years, 11 months ago by Nicolai Henriksen.

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