new port: sysutils/anacron (periodic command scheduler)

Hi,

I made a port of anacron. The original distribution assumes a Linux system and doesn't have a configure script... I'm not sure my solution to this is the most elegant one (providing configure.ac and Makefile.am and running aclocal, automake and autoconfig explicitly from post-extract). It also lacked the sources for the obstack macros, which I copied from the gcc distribution in OpenBSD-current (i386).

If anyone has a better solution, please let me know. In the meanwhile, have a look at the port, please:

    http://ak.freeshell.org/public/ports/sysutils/anacron.tgz

Only tested on i386, sorry.

DESCR: Information for anacron-2.3:

Comment:
periodic command scheduler

Description:
What it is:

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    Anacron is a periodic command scheduler. It executes     commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it     does not assume that the system is running continuously.     It can therefore be used to control the execution of     daily, weekly and monthly jobs (or anything with a period     of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day.     When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make     sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals     as closely as machine-uptime permits.

What it is not:

    Anacron is not an attempt to make cron redundant. It cannot     be used to schedule commands at intervals smaller than     days. It also does not guarantee that the commands will be     executed at any specific day or hour. It isn't a full-time     daemon. It has to be executed from boot scripts, from     cron-jobs, or explicitly.

WWW: http://anacron.sourceforge.net/

Maintainer: Andreas Kahari <andreas.kahari@unix.net>

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Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England