6 Downloads and Installation

The program can be downloaded from https://download.gnu.org.ua/release/micron. Before installation, create a group which will be used as owner for the user and user group crontab directories. The crontab binary will be installed as set-GID to that group. By default, the group is named ‘crontab’. Assuming this, the usual build sequence is

./configure
make
make install

If you chose another group name, supply it to configure using the --with-crontab-gid option.

The above commands will install the package under /usr/local. That is, the server will be installed as /usr/local/sbin/micron, the crontab utility as /usr/local/bin/crontab, etc. If that’s not what you want, use the --prefix option to specify the installation prefix, e.g.

./configure --prefix=/usr

Please refer to the INSTALL document in the source directory for a discussion of available options to configure and their effect.