From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: working crond package uploaded to sunsite Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 01:22:01 GMT
gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor) writes:
>I found that the crond in the vixie-cron package on sunsite & tsx was
>sufficiently old that it no longer works, so i extracted working
>binaries from the SLS and found REAL manpages elsewhere to get it
>going on my system. Since this took me some time (finding a specific
>binary in the SLS in not easy) I figured it would be good to share my
>results:
What version of cron is the one in SLS based on? I'd be
interested in getting the sources, but not the binaries...there is
a bug with the one in SLS that locks up 'mail' because it uses a
-d qualifier for it. I ended up getting rid of /bin/mail and linking
elm to it, but it still exhibits the same symptoms. I ended up
recompiling vixie-cron the last time and got rid of the -d, and
it works great.
Isn't SLS just using vixie?
marc