Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-124
Severity: wishlist
The TZ variable in /etc/default/cron is ignored by Wheezy. It is a quite handy
feature when need to run cron under different timezone, say, UTC.
It is easy to fix by add 'export TZ' to /etc/init.d/cron. Still, I'd like
suggest to bring it back in the official package. It is useful for those who
need it, and harmless to the rest.
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
not set
--- /usr/bin/editor:
/bin/nano
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 35880 Jul 4 05:41 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:04 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs:
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Sep 16 13:06 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
--- /etc/cron.d:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 11:52 /etc/cron.d
--- /etc/cron.daily:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 17:05 /etc/cron.daily
--- /etc/cron.hourly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 09:56 /etc/cron.hourly
--- /etc/cron.monthly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 11:52 /etc/cron.monthly
--- /etc/cron.weekly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 6 17:24 /etc/cron.weekly
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.4.11 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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 4.3.2
ii dpkg 1.16.8
ii libc6 2.13-35
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 exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-4
Versions of packages cron suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-19
pn checksecurity <none>
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>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/cron changed:
READ_ENV="yes"
TZ="UTC"
/etc/init.d/cron changed:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DESC="cron daemon"
NAME=cron
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron
PIDFILE=/var/run/crond.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/"$NAME"
test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
[ -r /etc/default/cron ] && . /etc/default/cron
parse_environment ()
{
for ENV_FILE in /etc/environment /etc/default/locale; do
[ -r "$ENV_FILE" ] || continue
[ -s "$ENV_FILE" ] || continue
for var in LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_CTYPE; do
value=`egrep "^${var}=" "$ENV_FILE" | tail -n1 | cut -d= -f2`
[ -n "$value" ] && eval export $var=$value
if [ -n "$value" ] && [ "$ENV_FILE" = /etc/environment ]; then
log_warning_msg "/etc/environment has been deprecated for
locale information; use /etc/default/locale for $var=$value instead"
fi
done
done
if [ -z "$TZ" -a -e /etc/timezone ]; then
TZ=`cat /etc/timezone`
fi
}
if [ "$READ_ENV" = "yes" ] ; then
export TZ
parse_environment
fi
case "$1" in
start) log_daemon_msg "Starting periodic command scheduler" "cron"
start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $EXTRA_OPTS
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping periodic command scheduler" "cron"
killproc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && [ -e "$PIDFILE" ] && rm -f $PIDFILE
log_end_msg $RETVAL
;;
restart) log_daemon_msg "Restarting periodic command scheduler" "cron"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
reload|force-reload) log_daemon_msg "Reloading configuration files for periodic
command scheduler" "cron"
# cron reloads automatically
log_end_msg 0
;;
status)
status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $NAME && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
*) log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/cron
{start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}"
exit 2
;;
esac
exit 0
-- no debconf information
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