Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-116
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi,
crontab(5) leaves it ambiguous what happens when you interleave environment
variables and commands, or repeat environment variables. The following patch
clarifies the issue.
--- crontab.5.old 2011-04-13 16:42:57.000000000 +0100
+++ crontab.5 2011-04-13 16:43:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@
allowed on the same line as environment variable settings.
.PP
An active line in a crontab will be either an environment setting or a cron
-command. An environment setting is of the form,
+command. The crontab file is parsed from top to bottom, so any environment
+settings will affect only the cron commands below them in the file.
+An environment setting is of the form,
.PP
name = value
.PP
Thanks,
J.
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
--- usr/bin/editor:
/bin/nano
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30248 Dec 18 23:46 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 26 02:45 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Apr 5 19:02 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers squeeze-updates
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 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:
hi exim [mail-transport-agent 3.36-16sarge1 An obsolete MTA (Mail Transport Ag
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.15 Programs for locking and unlocking
Versions of packages cron suggests:
pn anacron <none> (no description available)
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)
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