A new release of the Cygwin port of cron 4.1 is available in the 32-bit and
64-bit Cygwin distributions.
The change allows the cron-config script to handle new cron installations in
the upcoming Cygwin release, which does not rely on /etc/{password,group}.
Pierre
If you have questions or comment
Jared Silva wrote
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> Add support for the /etc/cron.d directory.
>> (with thanks to Thomas Berger)
> Can you please provide (or point to) a detailed explanation of the
> change and its impact?
cron also scans the /etc/cron.d directory and processes the crontab files
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Add support for the /etc/cron.d directory.
(with thanks to Thomas Berger)
Can you please provide (or point to) a detailed explanation of the
change and its impact?
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I have updated cron to version 4.1-5
NEWS:
cron
Add support for the /etc/cron.d directory.
(with thanks to Thomas Berger)
Please direct all comments and questions to the cygwin list, mentioning
"cron" in the Subject: line and ATTACHING the output of /usr/bin/cronbug.
Pierre
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I have updated cron to version 4.1-4
NEWS:
cron
Disable security tests for crontabs on FAT32 file systems.
Please direct all comments and questions to the cygwin list, mentioning
"cron" in the Subject: line and ATTACHING the output of /usr/bin/cronbug.
Pierre
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I have updated cron to version 4.1-3
NEWS:
cron
/etc/crontab must (if it exists):
- be owned by System
- have the Administrators group
- have mode 640.
package
***
/usr/bin/cronlog: now looks up MAILTO. If it starts with "/", cronlog
writes the
Pierre A. Humblet ieee.org> writes:
>
> 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.
Or, you can wait for me to relea
On 11-Apr-2007 17:08, Michael Schaap wrote:
On 11-Apr-2007 16:51, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
- Original Message - From: "Michael Schaap"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:42 AM
Subject: ***[Possible UCE]*** Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1
| On 11-Apr-2007 16:30
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Schaap" <>
To:
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 wh
On 11-Apr-2007 16:51, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Schaap"
To:
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
On 11-Apr-2007 16:30, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| If you have to do this by symlinking sendmail (which I still don't like,
| but that's just me), can't you move the creation to cron-config, so you
| can ask the user for permission before you do it?
Yes, but there are always those that do it by ha
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Schaap"
To:
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 s
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
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Schaap"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1
| On 11-Apr-2007 16:15, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| > - Original Message -
| > From: "Michael Schaap"
| > To:
On 11-Apr-2007 16:15, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Schaap"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1
| On 11-Apr-2007 12:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| > If /usr/sbin/sendmail does n
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Schaap"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1
| On 11-Apr-2007 12:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
| > If /usr/sbin/sendmail does not point to a mailer, the cron postinstall
script
|
On 11-Apr-2007 12:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
If /usr/sbin/sendmail does not point to a mailer, the cron postinstall script
links it to the (new) script /usr/bin/cronlog.
Isn't this a bit aggressive? Cron isn't the only one who might be using
sendmail, you know...
Might it not be better if
- Original Message -
From: "Andrew Louie"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1
| >
| > /usr/bin/cronlog is a "poor man's mailer" that writes cron output (if any)
| > to HOME/cron.log. HOME can
On 4/11/07, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
I have updated cron to version 4.1
If /usr/sbin/sendmail does not point to a mailer, the cron postinstall script
links it to the (new) script /usr/bin/cronlog.
Thanks! It took me a week to figure out how to set up up cron
correctly! first you had to le
I have updated cron to version 4.1
NEWS:
Cron
This port is based on Paul Vixie's cron packaged as 4.1 but reporting itself
as 5.0.
The changes (listed in /usr/share/doc/cron/CHANGES) don't appear to break
compatibility with 3.0.
There is a new algorithm to handle time jumps.
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