[3311] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Bug in vixie-cron 3.0.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bray)
Thu Nov 7 23:07:12 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:21:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andrew Bray <andy@madhouse.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: Andrew Bray <andy@chaos.org.uk>
To: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
cc: paul@vix.com, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961107125938.29151A-300000@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> I've discovered a bug in crond. It dies when it receives HUP signal twice.
> The patch (which is rather trivial) is included.
> (For RH users that do not want for "the official fix": the updated spec
> file is included too. Use with vixie-cron-3.0.1-9.src.rpm. This bug seems
> to affect both 3.0.3 and 4.0.)
I found this (reported to this list in RedHat 2.1 and 3.03), but I fixed
it differently:
I added "-D__USE_BSD_SIGNAL" to DEFS in the Makefile, which caused
signal() to have BSD semantics. This is what crond seems to assume.
Regards,
Andrew Bray
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