Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/12/20/21:07:10
Just downloaded cygwin 1.3.6 but I don't see 'cron' or 'bc' etc., as listed on http://cygwin.com/packages/
Am I missing something?
--njg
On Thu, 20 September 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> I have updated the version of CRON in cygwin/contrib to 3.0.1-5.
>
> Changes from -4 to -5:
> ======================
>
> Crontab now changes group membership to be SYSTEM on the crontab
> files and sets the permissions to 640. That should allow cron
> to work immediately with the crontab files created by crontab.
> Note that this requires that /etc/group has been created and
> contains the default SYSTEM entry, gid 18. DON'T CHANGE THAT!
>
> =======================================================================
> Cron is neither patched for nor tested on 9x/ME. If it doesn't work,
> feel free to send me patches to accomodate 9x/ME. If you have problems,
> I assume it will have to do with file permission or user identity
> checks, probably.
> =======================================================================
>
> Send patches and error reports to <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>
> To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
> the http://cygwin.com web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system.
>
> Run setup and answer all of the questions. The mirrors below have the
> latest version of this package:
>
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ (US)
> ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/ (UK)
> ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ (Germany)
>
> Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version
> of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again.
> After this point it will only download what is needed.
>
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