Hello list,
I recently upgraded to squeeze and tripped over a bug in cron,
Basically a working, but somewhat invalid crontab user entry, silently stopped
working after the upgrade.
Since the bug won't be fixed, see below, IMHO it would be a good idea to make
our users aware of the problem.
So what is the procedure to add something to the release notes?
I found the debian-doc svn repository, but no package to report bugs against. Do
I need to send patches to this list?
Regards,
Stefan
PS: Please CC me, I am not on the list.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580887
----- Forwarded message from Christian Kastner <[email protected]> -----
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:21:57 +0200
From: Christian Kastner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#580887: affected
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On 06/06/2011 10:48 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I just tripped over this.
Unfortunately this bug will have to remain open for the time being, the
amount of effort to fix it for cron-3.1, is too large to be justified,
as we are trying to get rid of cron-3.1.
> I had an entry in my crontab:
>
> 42 7-24/3 * * * /bin/foo ...
>
> after upgrading to squeeze, the job was no longer run and I did not find any
> cron related error in /var/log.
>
> what helped was:
>
> crontab -e
> :wq
> ...
> ... there is an error in line X, invalid hout
>
> changing that to
>
> 42 7-23/3 ....
For reference, this specific error is another instance of #533726.
Regards,
Christian
----- End forwarded message -----
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Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
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