Package: debianutils
Version: 4.4+b1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I think I've found a bug in run-parts and this bug affecs also the cron package.
The man page of run-parts says:
" If the --lsbsysinit option is given, then the names must not end in
.dpkg-old or .dpkg-dist or .dpkg-new or .dpkg-tmp, and must belong to
one or more of the following namespaces: the LANANA-assigned namespace
(^[a-z0-9]+$); the LSB hierarchical and reserved namespaces
(^_?([a-z0-9_.]+-)+[a-z0-9]+$); and the Debian cron script namespace
(^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$)
"
So, if I run run-parts with --lsbsysinit option, it should select files with
filename like "test_file"
because this file belongs to the Debian cron script namespace. But it doesn't
select it.
For example, I have the next files in /etc/cron.d directory:
$ ls -l /etc/cron.d
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119 oct 23 2013 apticron
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 355 mar 19 2012 cron-apt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 jun 26 11:52 test_file
If I run run-parts with --lsbsysinit option and without it, run-parts always
should select the test_file,
but it only selects it if --lsbsysinit is not used:
$ run-parts --list /etc/cron.d
/etc/cron.d/apticron
/etc/cron.d/cron-apt
/etc/cron.d/test_file
$ run-parts --list --lsbsysinit /etc/cron.d
/etc/cron.d/apticron
/etc/cron.d/cron-apt
$
According to man page of run-parts, the regexp of Debian cron script namespace
is
"^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$", so you can check the "test_file" filename belong to this
namespace:
$ echo test_file | egrep "^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$"
test_file
An another problem of this behaviour is that cron doesn't run cronjobs of
/etc/cron.d with
filenames belong to the Debian cron script namespace if cron is executed with
"-l" option.
I've seen this issue, at less, from Debian Wheezy.
Therefore, I think run-parts doesn't behave like run-parts man page says or
this man page should be fixed
to show that --lsbsysinit option doesn't use the Debian cron script namespace.
Best regards,
Jorge
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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