On Nov 6 16:08, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Corinna Vinschen > > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 13:51 > > > > On Nov 6 13:38, Kelley Cook wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > > > > > > > > > > > I just released a 7th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin > > > > release, 1.7.33-0.7. > > > > > > > > > > I discovered that /usr/bin/cron-config which is part of the cron > > > package will need to be updated as it attempts to parse /etc/group . > > > > Right, it should use getent instead. Pierre? > > Right, and ditto for exim config and postinstall > How much time do I have? > > Now cron-config checks if a username appears multiple times in passwd. > Typically one instance is a domain id and the other one is a local id. > That causes havoc with cron > It happens fairly frequently; there was even such a "bug report" recently. > > How does getent handle that case? Is it detectable from a config file?
Cygwin will only see the first one of these user names when reading from passwd, same for getent (or cron). I don't think config scripts have to handle every configuration error. On systems not using passwd and group files, this problem wouldn't occur for instance. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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