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Date:      Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:40:20 GMT
From:      Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/81555: Cron exits from SIGPIPE after crontab -e when using NSS-LDAP
Message-ID:  <200506222040.j5MKeKTU017325@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/81555; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
To: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/81555: Cron exits from SIGPIPE after crontab -e when using NSS-LDAP
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:33:07 +0100

 * Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> [0625 16:25]:
 > Dick Davies wrote:
 > > This also appears to be an issue with non-ldap users on 5.4, providing the system 
 > > has some nss_ldap accounts. I'm not sure whether it's because my initial (ssh) login
 > > was nss_ldap based.
 > 
 > Actually it must've been because of your ssh login was nss-ldap based.
 > You can verify this by restarting sshd after putting your account in
 > /etc/passwd to test.
 > 
 > By the way, simply ignoring the SIGPIPE works well for me. Trivial patch
 > attached.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Dean
 > 
 > -- 
 > Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
 > dean@stack.nl  |  dean@ipnet6.org  |  http://www.ipnet6.org/
 > "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
 
 > --- usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.c	Sun Jun 12 17:18:18 2005
 > +++ usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.c	Sun Jun 12 17:18:36 2005
 > @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 >  
 >  	parse_args(argc, argv);
 >  
 > +	(void) signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
 >  #ifdef USE_SIGCHLD
 >  	(void) signal(SIGCHLD, sigchld_handler);
 >  #else
 
 
 That helped for me, thanks - is there any obvious downside to this ?
 
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 from the freezer and try piecing together potatoes.'
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