Package: etckeeper Version: 1.18.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
etckeeper so far worked fine in normal operation (i.e., as triggered by apt and by manually doing "etckeeper commit"), but the cronjob just failed with the following error: ====================================== /etc/cron.daily/etckeeper: *** Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email "y...@example.com" git config --global user.name "Your Name" to set your account's default identity. Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository. fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'root@r-schwarzschild.(none)') run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/etckeeper exited with return code 128 ====================================== Previous commits were done with "r@r-schwarzschild" (that's my normal user) and "post AT ralfj DOT de" (unobfuscated, of course; that's what I have now set in ~r/.gitconfig). However, it seems that when etckeeper runs without a wrapping sudo (?), like it does in the cronjob, it is unable to perform commits. The debian installer accepts an empty domain name just fine, and "r@r-schwarzschild" also worked before I did any manual configuration. Hence I would expect the cronjob to also be able to cope with that. Besides, the instructions I got from git up there are obviously not correct as that would set things in ~r/.gitconfig; I am not sure what is the right way to inform etckeeper about the email address to use. Kind regards, Ralf -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.1 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages etckeeper depends on: ii darcs 2.12.4-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii git 1:2.11.0-2 ii mercurial 4.0-1 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages etckeeper recommends: ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128 Versions of packages etckeeper suggests: ii sudo 1.8.19-1 -- debconf information: etckeeper/purge: true
