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Re: Crontab on Win9X works


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:32:27AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Just had a cup of coffee and I noticed in my cron.sh:
> - it's silly to check if /usr/sbin exists because that's where
> cron.exe was installed.
> - it's safer to link /usr/sbin/ssmtp (without .exe).

Yeah, I've changed that.

> 3.0.1-9:
> --------
> 
> The mail command is /usr/sbin/sendmail, which is a symlink preset to 
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp . Prevent unnecessary syslog messages.
> On Win9x, do not propagate the environment (see 3.0.1-3) and have crontab.exe
> touch the file /etc/crontab instead of the directory /var/cron/tabs.

Thanks, I'll upload a new version with your patches soon.

Corinna

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