RE: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.7

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen 
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 13:51
> 
> On Nov  6 13:38, Kelley Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Hi Cygwin friends and users,
> > >
> > >
> > > I just released a 7th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin
> > > release, 1.7.33-0.7.
> > >
> >
> > I discovered that /usr/bin/cron-config which is part of the cron
> > package will need to be updated as it attempts to parse /etc/group .
> 
> Right, it should use getent instead.  Pierre?
 
Right, and ditto for exim config and postinstall
How much time do I have?

Now cron-config checks if a username appears multiple times in passwd.
Typically one instance is a domain id and the other one is a local id.
That causes havoc with cron
It happens fairly frequently; there was even such a "bug report" recently.

How does getent handle that case? Is it detectable from a config file?

Pierre


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