On 06-Jul-99, 07:19 (CDT), John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote: > > I just tried to use it and couldn't get it to work. If someone has I would > appreciate seeing a working example. Here's the most recent section debian/changelog (not yet released, because there is a serious bug in handling of stdin/out/err for the child process): ====================================================== cron (3.0pl1-52) unstable; urgency=low * Added 'nice -10' to invocation of cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} * Applied OpenBSD patches supplied Topi Miettinen. Big change is better handling of timekeeping (in particular, changes to/from daylight savings time) (closes:#8499). * Close stdin, stdout, and stderr. (closes:#37189, #23231) -- Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:16:25 -0500 ====================================================== I did dpkg-buildpackage, and heres the resulting .changes file: ====================================================== Format: 1.6 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:16:25 -0500 Source: cron Binary: cron Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.0pl1-52 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> Description: cron - management of regular background processing Closes: 8499 23231 37189 Changes: cron (3.0pl1-52) unstable; urgency=low . * Added 'nice -10' to invocation of cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} * Applied OpenBSD patches supplied Topi Miettinen. Big change is better handling of timekeeping (in particular, changes to/from daylight savings time) (closes:#8499). * Close stdin, stdout, and stderr. (closes:#37189, #23231) Files: 140b9458d1457ce2fc46999d1537807c 507 admin important cron_3.0pl1-52.dsc 7c88068f498d0c0a5de4b9600233bb9d 75385 admin important cron_3.0pl1-52.tar.gz ae09ba585d7a9dd1135e998686e88e2f 56216 admin important cron_3.0pl1-52_i386.deb ====================================================== Notice the Format number and Closes: header line. This is with dpkg-dev 1.4.1.3 on potato. Regards, Steve
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