Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-105 Severity: normal
Hiya, The crontab command from the cron package seems not to be POSIX conformant: $ crontab crontab: usage error: file name must be specified for replace [...] $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 crontab crontab: usage error: file name must be specified for replace [...] crontab without argument is meant to replace the user's crontab with crontab's stdin (in a POSIX crontab). http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/crontab.html [...] SUSv4> SYNOPSIS SUSv4> SUSv4> crontab [file] SUSv4> SUSv4> ^[UP] crontab [-e|-l|-r] [...] SUSv4> The new crontab entry can be input by specifying file or SUSv4> input from standard input if no file operand is specified [...] -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.31 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon Versions of packages cron suggests: ii anacron 2.3-13.1 cron-like program that doesn't go pn checksecurity <none> (no description available) ii lockfile-progs 0.1.11-0.1 Programs for locking and unlocking ii logrotate 3.7.7-3 Log rotation utility -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
