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1.2. How to install fcron

1.2.1. Compilation requirements

* A C compiler (e.g. gcc)

* (optional) readline development library (e.g. libreadline-dev)
* (optional) PAM development library (e.g. libpam0g-dev)
* (optional) SE Linux development library (e.g. libselinux1-dev)
* (optional) Linux audit development library (e.g. libaudit-dev)
* If compiling from git checkout (rather than a tarball), then no
generated file will be included out of the box, so you will need
more tools to generate them. In particular the ./configure script
and the documentation will be generated from the sources.
+ git
+ autoconf
+ docbook
+ docbook-xsl
+ docbook-xml
+ docbook-util
+ manpages-dev

1.2.2. Compilation and installation instructions

* uncompress the archive:

bash$ tar -xzf fcron-X.Y.Z.src.tar.gz

* cd to the archive directory

bash$ cd fcron-X.Y.Z

* run the configure script:

bash$./configure

+ If you can't see a ./configure, then you probably checked out

the files from git, in which case you need to run autoconf to
generate the configure script.
+ If using PAM, beware that by default the PAM configuration
will be installed in /usr/local/etc/. That most likely mean
that your system won't use this config, and may ask you to
type your password everytime you start fcrontab or fcrondyn.
The simplest way to avoid this is to instruct configure to use
/etc instead with:

bash$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc

+ You may also want to change the place where fcron will be
installed: you can use the configure 's option --prefix to do
 that. For instance:

bash$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

(default is prefix=/usr/local and sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc).

+ To disable the use of PAM, SE Linux or fcrondyn, use
configure's option --with-pam=no, --with-selinux=no and/or
--with-fcrondyn=no.
+ The command make install asks you by default some questions
you have to answer. To avoid that (which can be useful for
automatic installers), you can use the ./configure's option
--with-answer-all and/or --with-boot-install (see "./configure
--help" for more details).
+ To debug fcron, you should use configure 's option
--with-debug.
+ You can get info on the others configure 's options by running
"./configure --help".

Warning
+ The configure script may not define a correct directory for
the man pages and the documentation on some systems. You may
check the values defined by configure and if necessary force a
value by the options --mandir and -with-docdir (see the help
by running "./configure --help").
+ If you get older fcron's man-pages with man command after
having upgraded, it's probably because fcron has changed its
default man directory: you should remove manually the outdated
man-pages.
+ The Makefile has been designed for GNU make. Some other
version of make may fail to use it.

* (optional) check the file config.h, and change it if necessary (the

configurable part is on the top of the file and clearly delimited).
* compile:

bash$ make

* then install binaries as root:

bash$ su root

bash# make install

You can now run fcron and fcrontab.

* fcron requires a fcron user and a fcron group. If they don't exist
already, make install will propose to create them for you.
* This is a POSIX conforming software. You must have a POSIX compiler
(gcc for example) in order to compile it.
* This software has been written for GNU/Linux systems. If you want
to port it on an other Unix platform (thank you if you do it),
please try to modify - if possible - only the configure script.
Please send me any modifications at <fcron@free.fr> in order to
include it in future releases.
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