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Re: Crontab on Win9X works
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:59:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: Crontab on Win9X works
- References: <3.0.5.32.20030414224423.007f8c50@mail.attbi.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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