Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-123 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Hi. Apparently, cron doesn't clear the PID file once stopped, so subsequent invokations of: /etc/init.d/cron stop continue to try killing a process of that PID. E.g.: # /etc/init.d/cron stop [ ok ] Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. # /etc/init.d/anacron stop && /etc/init.d/cron stop [....] Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron/sbin/start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 10944: No such process . ok Given that any other process can have this PID in the meantime it may not too unlikely break unrelated software or cause even serious data loss; therefore marking it as critical. Cheers, Chris. -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- /usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/vim.gnome --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 35880 Jun 23 09:15 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron: drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 2 2008 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs: drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Dec 20 2006 /var/spool/cron/crontabs --- /etc/cron.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:03 /etc/cron.d --- /etc/cron.daily: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:03 /etc/cron.daily --- /etc/cron.hourly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:03 /etc/cron.hourly --- /etc/cron.monthly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:03 /etc/cron.monthly --- /etc/cron.weekly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:03 /etc/cron.weekly -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.20-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debianutils 4.3.1 ii dpkg 1.16.4.3 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-7.1 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 Versions of packages cron recommends: ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.9.3-2 Versions of packages cron suggests: ii anacron 2.3-19 ii checksecurity 2.0.14 ii logrotate 3.8.1-4 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> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
