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cronie: Convert crontab to a system user

PATCH Richard Purdie 1 participant 1 message Apr 9, 2013

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crontab is meant to be a system user, not a normal user of the system so lets pass the correct parameters to the system. If we don't do this it interferes with the setup of normal users, particularly if some preset list of users is desired.

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meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.4.9.bb +1 -1
index 7db0381..b338c37 100644
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ INITSCRIPT_NAME = "crond"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
 
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "crontab"
+GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system crontab"
 
 do_install_append () {
 	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/