[poky] [PATCH 2/5] cronie: enable multi-user crontab usage and make cron environment complete

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Wold, Saul
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:00 AM
> > +
> > +pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
> > +	if [ "x$D" != "x" ] ; then
> > +		exit 1
> > +	fi
> > +
> > +	# below setting is necessary to allow normal user using crontab
> > +
> > +	# add 'crontab' group and setgid for crontab binary
> > +	grep crontab /etc/group || addgroup crontab
> > +	chown root:crontab /usr/bin/crontab
> > +	chmod 2755 /usr/bin/crontab
> > +
> > +	# allow 'crontab' group write to /var/spool/cron
> > +	chown root:crontab /var/spool/cron
> > +	chmod 770 /var/spool/cron
> > +
> > +	chmod 600 /etc/crontab
> >   }
> Kevin,
> 
> I am going to hold off pulling this and the at changes.
> 
> Is there a specific reason that you are creating this as a post install
> operation for the permission management, both this and the at recipes
> are doing this.  Please remember that adding additional items that run
> at first boot slow things down.
> 
> Is it possible to run these permission changes at actual install time,
> instead of on the target.
> 

I thought about this when baking the patch, and finally went to this way because
there's chown operation and new group needs to be created. This has to be done
on the target, as you'll see in other similar recipes like dbus, hal, ...

Thanks
Kevin