bin/81555: Cron exits from SIGPIPE after crontab -e when using NSS-LDAP

[Dean Strik]

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

From: Dean Strik <dean at stack.nl>
To: Dick Davies <rasputnik at hellooperator.net>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dean at stack.nl
Subject: Re: bin/81555: Cron exits from SIGPIPE after crontab -e when using NSS-LDAP
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:24:59 +0200

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 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
 
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 Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
 dean at stack.nl  |  dean at ipnet6.org  |  http://www.ipnet6.org/
 "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
 
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 --- 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
 
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