Bug#584134: incron logs command to execute but command is not executing

[Andres V.]

Package: incron
Version: 0.5.7-1
Severity: important


Attaching usage log, for reference.

# empting "log"

and...@terminus:~$ > /tmp/ic.log 

# verifying incrontab

and...@terminus:~$ incrontab -l
/home/andres/maps IN_MODIFY /usr/bin/make -C $@ > /tmp/ic.log 2>&1

# modifying file

and...@terminus:~$ cat > maps/all.dot <<EOF
> digraph
> {
>   nod
> }
> 

# validating date

and...@terminus:~$ date
Tue Jun  1 10:01:39 COT 2010

# verifying syslog, the commands is "executed"

and...@terminus:~$ su -c "tail -5 /var/log/syslog"
Password: 
Jun  1 10:01:33 terminus incrond[5924]: (andres) CMD (/usr/bin/make -C /home/and
res/maps > /tmp/ic.log 2>&1)
Jun  1 10:01:33 terminus incrond[5924]: (andres) CMD (/usr/bin/make -C /home/and
res/maps > /tmp/ic.log 2>&1)

# verifying Makefile

and...@terminus:~$ cat maps/Makefile 
all: all.png

all.png: all.dot
        dot -Tpng $< > $@

# log is empty

and...@terminus:~$ cat /tmp/ic.log

# outfile is outdated

and...@terminus:~$ ls -l maps/all.png 
-rw-r--r-- 1 andres andres 12457 2010-06-01 09:58 maps/all.png

# the command works

and...@terminus:~$ /usr/bin/make -C /home/andres/maps > /tmp/ic.log 2>&1

# outfile is updated

and...@terminus:~$ ls -l maps/all.png 
-rw-r--r-- 1 andres andres 133 2010-06-01 10:04 maps/all.png

# "log" is logging

and...@terminus:~$ cat /tmp/ic.log 
make: Entering directory `/home/andres/maps'
dot -Tpng all.dot > all.png
make: Leaving directory `/home/andres/maps'

and...@terminus:~$ date
Tue Jun  1 10:05:11 COT 2010

# weird

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages incron depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.110        add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.2-1.1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.2-1.1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-20       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

incron recommends no packages.

incron suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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