From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 19 09:20:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA10016 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 09:20:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA10010 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 09:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA26372; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:20:02 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:20 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA05444 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 10:23:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.8.3/8.6.9) id KAA02747 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 10:27:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 10:27:30 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199701191527.KAA02747@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: cron problems in 2.1.6.1 (not signaling crond of a change in a cron Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > Aha! That's what didn't work - apparently. > > > > find_user() appears to only look for existing users. If you're > > adding a brand-new user crontab; it seems to be broken. > > Umm. Speak with Paul Vixie about this, this looks like a design flaw. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Okaley-Dokaley :-) I was the first guy to port Paul's cron to LINUX some years ago; so I've e-talked with him before... I think I'll wait until I have a fix before I bother him about it. - Thanks - - Dave Rivers -