Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:14:37 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron.sh postinstall Message-ID: <20041229101437.GM3232@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Dec 28 10:38, Brian Ford wrote: > Trivial note to maintainer: > > Suggest mkdir -p for /var/cron/tabs to avoid cosmetic error message when > the directory already exists: > > + mkdir /var/cron/tabs > mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cron/tabs': File exists > > You could then remove the mkdir -p of /var/cron for one less command ;-). > > Did you really mean to leave the set -x in? Erm... no, not really. I've created a new cron.sh file like this: #!/bin/sh #set -x mkdir -p /etc/cron.d chmod -f 755 /etc/cron.d mkdir -p /var/cron/tabs chmod -f 1777 /var/cron /var/cron/tabs but I will not release a new cron for this trivial change. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/