Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-196 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
The crontab(5) manual contains a table near the start, listing the allowed values for each field. It lists the "day of month" field as allowing 0-31, and the "month" field as allowing 0-12. In both cases the range should start at 1, not 0. Values of 0 for either field are not accepted by crontab(1). The manual states that ranges or lists of names are not allowed, but crontab(1) allows lists and ranges of names for both the month and the day of the week, so for instance "Jan-Mar" is accepted in the month field, and "Mon,Tue,Wed" is accepted in the day-of-week field. When the month or the day of the week are given as names rather than numbers, the manual does not explicitly state whether these must always be in English, or whether the language depends on any locale settings. -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- /usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/editor --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 51936 Apr 6 18:47 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron: drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 5 19:02 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs: drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Apr 6 18:47 /var/spool/cron/crontabs --- /etc/cron.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 5 19:02 /etc/cron.d --- /etc/cron.daily: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 May 5 19:02 /etc/cron.daily --- /etc/cron.hourly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 5 19:02 /etc/cron.hourly --- /etc/cron.monthly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 5 19:02 /etc/cron.monthly --- /etc/cron.weekly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 5 19:02 /etc/cron.weekly -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages cron depends on: ii cron-daemon-common 3.0pl1-196 ii init-system-helpers 1.68 ii libc6 2.41-7 ii libpam-runtime 1.7.0-3 ii libpam0g 1.7.0-3 ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.25 Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.98.2-1 Versions of packages cron suggests: pn anacron <none> pn bat <none> pn checksecurity <none> pn logrotate <none> pn supercat <none> 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
