Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-100
Severity: normal
Hi,
I just discovered the following behaviour with cron which seems like a
bug to me. A user has the following entries in his personal crontab
(lines abbreviated):
30 01 * * * CAL=`calendar`; [ ! -z "$CAL" ] && calendar | mail [...]
30 01 * * * r2e run
@reboot CAL=`calendar`; [ ! -z "$CAL" ] && calendar | mail [...]
@reboot r2e run
The regular cronjobs are executed every night at 1:30 pm. Upon reboot,
however, only the second job ('r2e run') is being executed. Syslog shows
as follows:
Aug 10 06:58:42 p43k anacron[3263]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2007-08-10
Aug 10 06:58:42 p43k anacron[3263]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
Aug 10 06:58:42 p43k anacron[3263]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
Aug 10 06:58:43 p43k /usr/sbin/cron[3276]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Aug 10 06:58:43 p43k /usr/sbin/cron[3277]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Aug 10 06:58:43 p43k /usr/sbin/cron[3277]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Aug 10 06:58:43 p43k /USR/SBIN/CRON[3293]: (wolf) CMD (r2e run)
There's no entry regarding the other job. Some tests revealed that any
job where the command line includes `...` or $(...) will not be
executed. I discovered this on a production machine and was able to
reproduce this problem on a test etch installation. Whether or not
anacron was installed did not make a difference.
If you need any more information, feel free to contact me.
Cheers, Wolf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.3.8-2+b1 A high-performance mail transport
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