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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:59:35 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Crontab on Win9X works
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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

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