Re: Some little problems with 2.1.129

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:22:12 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> 1) dcron-2.3.3 isn't Y2K compliant. It happens to use %y as a
> parameter to some sscanf/printf stuff, and this only yields 2 digits.
> That particular package needs sorting out. This reminded me to warn
> you to keep an eye out for user land problems of this nature.

It also has a bug. See patch below (2nd main chunk), along with other
little modifications to make it compule under glibc 2.0.10x

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diff -ruNp dcron-2.3.3.ORIG/crontab.c dcron-2.3.3/crontab.c
--- dcron-2.3.3.ORIG/crontab.c	Sun Aug 31 09:30:40 1997
+++ dcron-2.3.3/crontab.c	Thu Nov  5 21:50:34 1998
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
      */
 
     if (chdir(CDir) < 0) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "cannot change diir to %s: %s\n", CDir, strerror(errno));
+        fprintf(stderr, "cannot change dir to %s: %s\n", CDir, strerror(errno));
         exit(1);
     }
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 		close(fd);
 		rename(path, pas->pw_name);
 	    } else {
-		fprintf(stderr, "unable to create %s/%s\n", CDir, buf);
+		fprintf (stderr, "unable to create %s/%s: %s", CDir, path, strerror(errno));
 	    }
 	    close(repFd);
 	}
diff -ruNp dcron-2.3.3.ORIG/subs.c dcron-2.3.3/subs.c
--- dcron-2.3.3.ORIG/subs.c	Mon Feb 16 20:35:10 1998
+++ dcron-2.3.3/subs.c	Thu Nov  5 21:22:25 1998
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Prototype void fdprintf(int fd, const ch
 Prototype int ChangeUser(const char *user, short dochdir);
 Prototype void vlog(int level, int fd, const char *ctl, va_list va);
 Prototype int slog(char *buf, size_t sz, const char *ctl, va_list va, short useDate);
-Prototype char *strdup(const char *);
+//Prototype char *strdup(const char *);
 
 void 
 log9(const char *ctl, ...)
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ ChangeUser(const char *user, short dochd
     }
     return(pas->pw_uid);
 }
-
+#if 0
 char *
 strdup(const char *str)
 {
@@ -141,3 +141,4 @@ strdup(const char *str)
     return(ptr);
 }
 
+#endif








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