anyone have cron binary for Solaris 2.5?

[John Santore]

Got a client who has accidentally blown away their cron binary in
/usr/sbin/cron by apparently redirecting their cronTAB to it.

so instead of /usr/sbin/cron they have
0 2 * * * /yadda/yadda/yadda

Does anyone have a copy of the binary cron for Solaris 2.5
(yes I know it's ancient) or know where I could get it?

Thanks in advance,

-John

[ecbrown]

have you tried the sunfreeware.com site?

[Martin Paul]

John Santore <jo...@santore.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a copy of the binary cron for Solaris 2.5
> (yes I know it's ancient) or know where I could get it?

Just get the cron patch for Solaris 2.5 (103723 for SPARC, 103724 for x86),
it contains the cron binary. Try:

wget http://patches.sun.com/all_unsigned/103723-13.tar.Z

Either try to install the patch, or extract the cron binary and
copy it /usr/sbin manually.

mp.
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Systems Administrator | Institute of Scientific Computing | Univ. of Vienna

[John Santore]

Martin Paul <m...@par.univie.ac.at> wrote in
news:423add30$0$12126$3b21...@usenet.univie.ac.at:

> John Santore <jo...@santore.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a copy of the binary cron for Solaris 2.5
>> (yes I know it's ancient) or know where I could get it?
>
> Just get the cron patch for Solaris 2.5 (103723 for SPARC, 103724 for
> x86), it contains the cron binary. Try:
>
> wget http://patches.sun.com/all_unsigned/103723-13.tar.Z
>
> Either try to install the patch, or extract the cron binary and
> copy it /usr/sbin manually.
>
> mp.

This is what I was able to do, and it worked.
Thanks to everyone for their input.

-John