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+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 based on the \
+original cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the \
+ability to use pam and SELinux."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.redhat.com"
+
+# Internet Systems Consortium License
+LICENSE = "ISC & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=dd2a592170760e1386c769e1043b3722 \
+                    file://src/cron.c;endline=20;md5=b425c334265026177128353a142633b4 \
+                    file://src/popen.c;beginline=3;endline=31;md5=edd50742d8def712e9472dba353668a9"
+
+SECTION = "utils"
+
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/cronie-crond/${BPN}/releases/"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/releases/download/cronie-${PV}/cronie-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://crond.init \
+           file://crontab \
+           file://crond.service \
+           ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_SRC_URI}', '', d)}"
+
+PAM_SRC_URI = "file://crond_pam_config.patch"
+PAM_DEPS = "libpam libpam-runtime pam-plugin-access pam-plugin-loginuid"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "351a37d0b5bd0144816724b4482747ad"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "be34c79505e5544323281854744b9955ff16b160ee569f9df7c0dddae5720eac"
+
+inherit autotools update-rc.d useradd systemd
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[audit] = "--with-audit,--without-audit,audit,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--with-pam,--without-pam,libpam,${PAM_DEPS}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[anacron] = "--enable-anacron,--disable-anacron,anacron"
+
+INITSCRIPT_NAME = "crond"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
+
+USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
+GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system crontab"
+
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "crond.service"
+
+do_install_append () {
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/
+	install -m 0644 ${S}/crond.sysconfig ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/crond
+	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/crond.init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/crond
+
+	# install systemd unit files
+	install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/crond.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+	sed -i -e 's,@BASE_BINDIR@,${base_bindir},g' \
+	       -e 's,@SBINDIR@,${sbindir},g' \
+	       ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/crond.service
+
+	# below are necessary for a complete cron environment
+	install -d ${D}${localstatedir}/spool/cron
+	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/crontab ${D}${sysconfdir}/
+	mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.d
+	mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.hourly
+	mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.daily
+	mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.weekly
+	mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.monthly
+	touch ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.deny
+
+	# below setting is necessary to allow normal user using crontab
+
+	# setgid for crontab binary
+	chown root:crontab ${D}${bindir}/crontab
+	chmod 2755 ${D}${bindir}/crontab
+
+	# allow 'crontab' group write to /var/spool/cron
+	chown root:crontab ${D}${localstatedir}/spool/cron
+	chmod 770 ${D}${localstatedir}/spool/cron
+
+	chmod 600 ${D}${sysconfdir}/crontab
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/cron*"
+CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/crontab"