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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Schaap" <>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:42 AM
Subject: ***[Possible UCE]*** Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1


| On 11-Apr-2007 16:30, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| > | "[ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ]" is true when a symlink
| > | "/usr/sbin/sendmail.exe" exists.
| >
| > Precisely if "[ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ]"  is true then
| >  || ln -sf /usr/bin/cronlog /usr/sbin/sendmail
| > shouldn't run.
| >   
| Indeed it doesn't.  But then:
| 
| [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ] && rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe
| 
| does run.

OK, I see what's happening.
 [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ]  as well as [ -L /usr/sbin/sendmail ] are true
when sendmail does not exist while sendmail.exe does.
I need a much more elaborate test to detect when both exist.
Thanks for the report.

Pierre


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