On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:11:56 -0800 Alex Gould wrote: [...] > Dear Maintainer,
Hello Alex, thanks for your bug report! > > After upgrade to the current version of apt-listbugs, I have been getting > messages in my local mail from "Anacron job 'cron.daily'" to root: > > /etc/cron.daily/apt-listbugs: > logname: no login name > logname: no login name > logname: no login name > logname: no login name > logname: no login name > > I'm not sure what it means -- is apt-listbugs or anacron trying > to run a process as a different user? I am already aware of this bug. It seems to only happen when anacron is in charge of running cron.daily jobs (if cron.daily jobs are run by cron, the bug is not triggered). In a nutshell, apt-listbugs/0.1.26 executes logname, but, for some mysterious reason (maybe a bug in anacron? I have to investigate...), when anacron runs cron jobs, it sets an environment where the logname command fails (with the error message you are seeing). Unfortunately I noticed the issue only after the upload of apt-listbugs/0.1.26 to Debian unstable... Sorry about that. Anyway, this issue is harmless (the apt-listbugs cron.daily jobs works correctly, despite spitting error messages), it is just annoying. I have already worked around the issue and the next upload will include the patch I prepared. If the issue annoys you too much, you can manually apply the attached patch directly to the installed apt-listbugs package, with the following commands (run as root): # cd /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/ # zcat /tmp/apt-listbugs_logname_bug.diff.gz | patch -p3 assuming you saved the attached patch in the /tmp directory. Please let me know whether the patch succeeds in suppressing the annoying error message. Bye and thanks for your time. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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