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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Schaap" To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:42 AM Subject: ***[Possible UCE]*** Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1 | On 11-Apr-2007 16:30, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | > | "[ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ]" is true when a symlink | > | "/usr/sbin/sendmail.exe" exists. | > | > Precisely if "[ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ]" is true then | > || ln -sf /usr/bin/cronlog /usr/sbin/sendmail | > shouldn't run. | > | Indeed it doesn't. But then: | | [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ] && rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe | | does run. | | – Michael | | (I can't stand that syntax, by the way. It's so much easier to see | what's going on when you use a proper "if"...) Except if that if /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe did exist in the first place (not a dangling link) then cronlog would not have been linked, for the same reason: [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -o -e /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe ] and thus the rm -f would not do anything except possibly remove a dangling symlink. I still don't understand what happened. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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