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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-116
Severity: normal
Hi,
Amongst the examples given in crontab(5), one can find:
# Run on every second Saturday of the month
0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
This doesn't work, because % is special (in the same
manpage: "Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped
with backslash (\), will be changed into newline
characters")
The correct line should read:
0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
Cheers,
Y.
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
--- usr/bin/editor:
/usr/bin/vim.gtk
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30248 Dec 19 2010 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 11 2005 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Apr 21 10:33 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.15.8.13 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.13-37 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii exim4 4.72-6+squeeze3 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail 4.72-6+squeeze3 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.15+squeeze1 Programs for locking and unlocking
Versions of packages cron suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go
pn checksecurity <none> (no description available)
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages cron is related to:
pn libnss-ldap <none> (no description available)
pn libnss-ldapd <none> (no description available)
pn libpam-ldap <none> (no description available)
pn libpam-mount <none> (no description available)
pn nis <none> (no description available)
pn nscd <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.0pl1-121
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:43:36 +0200 Walter Doekes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just noticed the same bug. It is in:
> 3.0pl1-120ubuntu4
> but not in:
> 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2
>
>
> It has already been fixed in 2011 in the debian-cron-git repo:
>
> git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git
>
>
> commit fe274309d8d7e7787e06d2cb88ec4ed280b63805
> Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Sep 21 23:22:58 2011 +0200
>
> Escape the '%' in the examples so that they can work when copied
> over to crontab (Closes: #642309)
> ...
> -0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +%u) \-eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
> +0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +\\%u) \-eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
Thank you for noticing this! Closing.
Regards,
Christian
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