Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-130 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
I had made a mistake while writing crontab, and had reversed hours and minutes. This happened: Error: bad hour; while reading /etc/crontab Hoewver, cron then doesn't run any job at all. In this case it should just terminate with error, so I would see that the service is not running at all. Keeping running but being in an error state and doing nothing is not very ideal, just makes it harder to find what is happening. -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- /usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/vim.basic --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 39352 Mar 12 22:00 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron: drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 24 09:56 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs: drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 3 2015 /var/spool/cron/crontabs --- /etc/cron.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 10:32 /etc/cron.d --- /etc/cron.daily: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 09:50 /etc/cron.daily --- /etc/cron.hourly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 10:32 /etc/cron.hourly --- /etc/cron.monthly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 10:32 /etc/cron.monthly --- /etc/cron.weekly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 10:32 /etc/cron.weekly -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.117 ii debianutils 4.8.4 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.7 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.7 ii libselinux1 2.7-2+b2 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 Versions of packages cron recommends: ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.3.0-1 Versions of packages cron suggests: pn anacron <none> pn checksecurity <none> ii logrotate 3.11.0-0.1 Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> pn libnss-ldapd <none> pn libpam-ldap <none> pn libpam-mount <none> pn nis <none> pn nscd <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/crontab changed [not included] -- no debconf information
