Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Schaap"
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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 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/sbin/sendmail ] && rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe
|
| does run.
|
| – Michael
|
| (I can't stand that syntax, by the way.  It's so much easier to see
| what's going on when you use a proper "if"...)

Except if that if /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe did exist in the first place
(not a dangling link) then cronlog would not have been linked,
for the same reason:
 [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -o -e /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe  ]

and thus the rm -f would not do anything except possibly remove
a dangling symlink. I still don't understand what happened.

Pierre


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