Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-124
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Have a syntax error in /etc/crontab
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
see above
* What was the outcome of this action?
A generic useless non-informative error message is logged
in /var/log/syslog whih reads more or less (quoting by memory):
Syntax error in /etc/crontab. This file will be ignored
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The message should at the very least include the exact row and column
where the syntax error is, and ideally a description of the error
(e.g. "XXX expected" or "invalid YYY")
It's absolutely ridiculous that you have to figure out for yourself where
the error is in potentially thousands of lines.
*** End of the template - remove these lines ***
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
--- /usr/bin/editor:
/bin/nano
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 35880 Jul 3 2012 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 3 2013 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs:
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Jul 3 2012 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
--- /etc/cron.d:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 2015 /etc/cron.d
--- /etc/cron.daily:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 20 2014 /etc/cron.daily
--- /etc/cron.hourly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 3 2013 /etc/cron.hourly
--- /etc/cron.monthly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 3 2013 /etc/cron.monthly
--- /etc/cron.weekly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 3 2013 /etc/cron.weekly
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (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/dash
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debianutils 4.3.2
ii dpkg 1.16.15
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u6
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+Debian8+deb7u1
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii exim4 4.80-7
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-7
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/crontab changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
