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 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:29:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Slight patch for Cron In-Reply-To: <20030603103721.GW875@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Corinna, On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:31:05AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > I've "developed" an insignificant patch to cron (attached) that makes > > cron detach from the console before forking out (under Cygwin only). > > The patch is against the current release's source and WFM. > Did you try a recent developers snapshot? This should be accomplished > by the setsid call in the child (right after fork). Assuming you mean a Cygwin snapshot, I hadn't though it was a Cygwin problem so I haven't tried a snapshot, no, but come to think of it, the daemonizing cron does should detach it from the console ... (running chin ... lol ... slap forehead) I'll reinstall the unpatched cron, download the snapshot and give it a go. I'll let you know. Thanx! rlc -- 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/