Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:59:35 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Crontab on Win9X works Message-ID: <20030415135935.GZ11137@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3.0.5.32.20030414224423.007f8c50@mail.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030414224423.007f8c50@mail.attbi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:44:23PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > The attached patch modifies crontab.c to let cron run as it > should on Win9x. That's fine. > > The change in env.c reverts to ignoring the daemon environment, > on Win9x only. Why? > USE_SIGCHLD is now left undefined in compat.h to get > rid of a syslog message about the mail command failing. Why? Isn't a syslog message what we want if the mail command fails? > > In addition I would like to allow the use of mailers other > than ssmtp while preserving current installations. > This is done by patching compat.h to remove > #define _PATH_SENDMAIL "/usr/sbin/ssmtp" > and patching /etc/postinstall/cron.sh to > ln -s /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe /usr/sbin/sendmail > Users are free to point /usr/sbin/sendmail as they wish. That's fine, too. Could you please add a matching ChangeLog entry for cron.README? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/