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Re: Problem with cron!


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:20:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 cygwin at harrier dot ch wrote:
>
> [unnecessary full quote deleted, grrrrr]
>
>  I've just compared cron-3.0.1-9 and
> cron-3.0.1-10, and the only difference was that the stdin and stdout
> streams were redirected from/to /dev/null.  You might try to use the
> executable from cron-3.0.1-9, just to minimize the search space.  If it
> works, you know the latest change was the culprit.  If it doesn't, the
> culprit is in something that changed between -8 and -9.  FWIW, the changes

-9 introduced a change explicitely for 9x which results in the full
environment not being propagated to child processes.  The discussion
should be in the cygwin ML archive.

Corinna

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