X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Envelope-To: X-Virus-Status: Clean Message-ID: <461CEAAC.7040608@mscha.nl> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:03:24 +0200 From: Michael Schaap Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 11-Apr-2007 12:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > If /usr/sbin/sendmail does not point to a mailer, the cron postinstall script > links it to the (new) script /usr/bin/cronlog. > Isn't this a bit aggressive? Cron isn't the only one who might be using sendmail, you know... Might it not be better if crond would be made smart enough to run /usr/bin/cronlog in case /usr/sbin/sendmail doesn't exist? Aside from that, the cron postinstall just removed my existing sendmail symlink (to ssmtp), leaving me without one. Your code does: # Link sendmail to a poor man's mailer if sendmail # does not exist (e.g. dangling symlink) # Handle the .exe mess [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -o -e /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe ] || ln -sf /usr/bin/cronlog /usr/sbin/sendmail [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ] && rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe which is broken in the case of an existing symlink /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe (as created by current versions of ssmtp-config and ln). – Michael -- 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/