From: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:19:34 +0100
Subject: Debian paths and commands

User pathnames and commands specific to Debian.

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/482284
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2016-01-15
Index: cron/pathnames.h
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/pathnames.h
+++ cron/pathnames.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 			 * to; SPOOL_DIR, ALLOW_FILE, DENY_FILE, and LOG_FILE
 			 * are all relative to this directory.
 			 */
-#define CRONDIR		"/var/cron"
+#define CRONDIR		"/var/spool/cron"
 #endif
 
 			/* SPOOLDIR is where the crontabs live.
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 			 * newer than they were last time around (or which
 			 * didn't exist last time around...)
 			 */
-#define SPOOL_DIR	"tabs"
+#define SPOOL_DIR	"crontabs"
 
 			/* undefining these turns off their features.  note
 			 * that ALLOW_FILE and DENY_FILE must both be defined
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
 			 * LOG_FILE or SYSLOG is defined, we don't log.  If
 			 * both are defined, we log both ways.
 			 */
-#define	ALLOW_FILE	"allow"		/*-*/
-#define DENY_FILE	"deny"		/*-*/
+#define	ALLOW_FILE	"/etc/cron.allow"		/*-*/
+#define DENY_FILE	"/etc/cron.deny"		/*-*/
 #define LOG_FILE	"log"		/*-*/
 
 			/* where should the daemon stick its PID?
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 #else
 # define PIDDIR "/etc/"
 #endif
-#define PIDFILE		"%scron.pid"
+#define PIDFILE		"%scrond.pid"
 
 			/* 4.3BSD-style crontab */
 #define SYSCRONTAB	"/etc/crontab"
@@ -66,11 +66,7 @@
 			/* what editor to use if no EDITOR or VISUAL
 			 * environment variable specified.
 			 */
-#if defined(_PATH_VI)
-# define EDITOR _PATH_VI
-#else
-# define EDITOR "/usr/ucb/vi"
-#endif
+#define EDITOR "/usr/bin/sensible-editor"
 
 #ifndef _PATH_BSHELL
 # define _PATH_BSHELL "/bin/sh"
Index: cron/misc.c
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/misc.c
+++ cron/misc.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ set_cron_cwd()
 }
 
 
-/* acquire_daemonlock() - write our PID into /etc/cron.pid, unless
+/* acquire_daemonlock() - write our PID into /etc/crond.pid, unless
  *	another daemon is already running, which we detect here.
  *
  * note: main() calls us twice; once before forking, once after.
Index: cron/cron.8
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/cron.8
+++ cron/cron.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ runlevels.
 .SH NOTES
 .PP
 .I cron
-searches its spool area /var/cron/tabs for crontab
+searches its spool area (/var/spool/cron/crontabs) for crontab
 files (which are named after accounts in
 /etc/passwd); crontabs found are loaded into memory.  Note that
 crontabs in this directory should not be accessed directly -
Index: cron/crontab.1
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/crontab.1
+++ cron/crontab.1
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ these are files in /var/spool/cron/cront
 they are not intended to be edited directly.
 .PP
 If the
-.I /var/cron/allow
+.I /etc/cron.allow
 file exists, then you must be listed (one user per line) therein in order to be
 allowed to use this command.  If the
-.I /var/cron/allow
+.I /etc/cron.allow
 file does not exist but the
-.I /var/cron.deny
+.I /etc/cron.deny
 file does exist, then you must \fBnot\fR be listed in the
-.I /var/cron/cron.deny
+.I /etc/cron.deny
 file in order to use this command.
 .PP
 If neither of these files exists, then depending on site-dependent
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ configuration parameters, only the super
 command, or all users will be able to use this command.
 .PP
 If both files exist then
-.I /var/cron/allow
+.I /etc/cron.allow
 takes precedence.  Which means that
-.I /var/cron/deny
+.I /etc/cron.deny
 is not considered and your user must be listed in
-.I /var/cron/allow
+.I /etc/cron.allow
 in order to be able to use the crontab.
 .PP
 Regardless of the existence of any of these files, the root administrative
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ default editor /usr/bin/editor is used.
 crontab(5), cron(8)
 .SH FILES
 .nf
-/var/cron/allow
-/var/cron/deny
-/var/cron/crontabs
+/etc/cron.allow
+/etc/cron.deny
+/var/spool/cron/crontabs
 .fi
 .PP
 The files
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ if, they exist, must be either world-rea
 ``crontab''. If they are not, then cron will deny access to all users until the
 permissions are fixed.
 .PP
-There is one file for each user's crontab under the /var/cron/crontabs
+There is one file for each user's crontab under the /var/spool/cron/crontabs
 directory.  Users are not allowed to edit the files under that directory
 directly to ensure that only users allowed by the system to run periodic tasks
 can add them, and only syntactically correct crontabs will be written there.