Antw: Re: anacron madness

1998-12-07 Thread helmut . geyer
Hi ! The problem with anacron not working is, that at least under the current gcc/libc combo a comparison like while ((a=getchar())!=EOF) does not work correctly for a char type a. If you change the type to int or specify -fsigned-char as a compiler option or make an explicit cast to int,

Re: anacron madness

1998-12-07 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 15:05:01 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Dänzer) wrote: >I've seen a posting about this before: anacron doesn't work on my box. On >contrary to what the manpage says, it neither forks nor sends mail nor writes >anything into the syslog, thus hanging the machine during init. Is

Re: anacron madness

1998-12-06 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >contrary to what the manpage says, it neither forks nor sends mail nor writes >anything into the syslog, thus hanging the machine during init. Is this a Don't know if this helps, but I would like to add that I have the exactly same problem

anacron madness

1998-12-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hi everybody I've seen a posting about this before: anacron doesn't work on my box. On contrary to what the manpage says, it neither forks nor sends mail nor writes anything into the syslog, thus hanging the machine during init. Is this a known problem? Can it be fixed somehow? I ask because anacr