Bug#969329: systemd-cron: Special user nobody configured, this is not safe!

2020-12-20 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, I don't know how to properly fix this. Using "root:root" seems worse. A P.R. against upstream repo is welcomed. Alexandre Le lun. 31 août 2020 à 16:54, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > > Package: systemd-cron > Version: 1.5.14-2 > Severity: important > > Since a recent upgrade, systemd

Bug#992748: systemd-cron: postinst error

2021-08-23 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Thanks. This was copy-pasted from src:cron, which must have the same bug now. Le lun. 23 août 2021 à 04:57, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > Setting up systemd-cron (1.5.17-1) ... > xargs: warning: options --max-args and --replace/-I/-i are mutually > exclusive, ignoring previous --max-args

Bug#992748: systemd-cron: postinst error

2021-09-08 Thread Alexandre Detiste
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/commit/230478512cc82d879d727f6dfc18040bdd48c9d9 same as 892720, 892721, 892724 :-( ... will sync again with the latest cron.postinst and reupload Le mer. 8 sept. 2021 à 20:03, Daniel Serpell a écrit : > > Package: systemd-cron > Version: 1.5.17-2 >

Bug#992748: systemd-cron: postinst error - CVE-2017-9525?

2021-09-08 Thread Alexandre Detiste
t; Control: severity -1 important > > Control: found -1 1.5.16-1 > > Control: found -1 1.5.14-2 > > Control: tags 992748 - security > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 02:49:40PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > Control: tags -1 + secu

Bug#916749: systemd-cron: Tries to launch unreachable commands

2022-01-02 Thread Alexandre Detiste
control: reassign -1 dma Hi, This looks more like normal behaviour. tchet@brix ~ $ [ -x /usr/sbin/dma ] && /usr/sbin/dma -q1 tchet@brix ~ $ echo $? 1 The crontab should maybe have been written this way, to always return "true". [ -x /usr/sbin/dma ] && /usr/sbin/dma -q1 || true I'm

Bug#969329: systemd-cron: Special user nobody configured, this is not safe!

2021-07-27 Thread Alexandre Detiste
No it's too late Le mar. 27 juil. 2021 à 19:45, Thomas Uhle < thomas.u...@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> a écrit : > Dear maintainers, > > given that the current version in bullseye is still configured with > "User=nobody" which causes this syslog message, I would like to ask if > there is something

Bug#1004414: systemd-cron: generator turns crontabs public readable

2022-02-01 Thread Alexandre Detiste
This is pointless. Nothing can be done to really improve the situation, as anybody can look around in /proc . Le jeu. 27 janv. 2022 à 04:21, Robert Siemer a écrit : > > Package: systemd-cron > Version: 1.15.18-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: security > X-Debbugs-Cc:

Bug#1051981: R:e systemd-boot kernel postinst script calls ukify which requires python3

2023-09-15 Thread Alexandre Detiste
>A possible middle way could be to implement >/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/60-ukify.install in shell, the script seems > the script seems simple enough. The little script load & call a much bigger one: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/ukify/ukify.py >def call_ukify(opts): >

Bug#1051805: systemd-cron: shell redirect not working in crontab entries

2023-09-12 Thread Alexandre Detiste
0) I d like to hear what our dear user(s) think about this matter or more generally about systemd-cron before going further. John: I see that you use a "cron-monthly-000loaddelay.timer", and I guess it's purpose from it's name; and this workflow may need to be tweaked; the

Bug#1051805: systemd-cron: shell redirect not working in crontab entries

2023-09-12 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Control: tag -1 +confirmed Hi, I confirm your problem. In v1.x the trailing "> /dev/null" was purposely chopped of the end of the line because there wasn't an OnSucces= handler anyway and the goal was to further parse the bash-one liner. Some of the brittle bash-parsing has already been

Bug#1051805: systemd-cron: shell redirect not working in crontab entries

2023-09-13 Thread Alexandre Detiste
> And this is moot anyway since we only inline single-word programs, > so we could only do this transformation for single-word programs. > I cannot imagine anything that would be affected if we do /that/, > since there aren't any programs that are useful when you run them with > no arguments from

RFS: systemd-cron / bookworm-backports

2023-10-21 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Can you please publish a backport of systemd-cron to bookworm-backports ? It looks like these commands are enough but I don't have the ACL for the backport: gbp clone g...@salsa.debian.org:detiste-guest/systemd-cron.git dch --bpo '' debuild -S cd .. dput ftp-master

Re: RFS: systemd-cron / bookworm-backports

2023-10-21 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Le sam. 21 oct. 2023 à 16:07, Michael Biebl a écrit : > Can you send me a ready to be uploaded dsc (don't want to mess up your git). > > Michael Here it is: https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/systemd-cron/systemd-cron_2.3.0-1~bpo12+1.dsc Thanks

systemd-cron UsrMerge

2023-08-18 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, systemd-cron in unstable reads it's paths from systemd-dev with pkg-conf. This way it is binNMU-able after src:systemd has been updated. Greetings

Bug#1002925: systemd-cron: please add support for cron.yearly

2022-07-17 Thread Alexandre Detiste
I have no power there... when I beg for something in 2014 it gets eventually done in 2022. I would also like to have a binary "crontab" splitted out of "src:cronie"; to avoid to have to manage this, but not enough will negotiate for it. Le dim. 17 juil. 2022 à 08:03, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit

Bug#1019035: systemd-cron: prerm fails in unbooted systems

2022-09-06 Thread Alexandre Detiste
> Thank you in advance for your consideration. I hope you will agree this > is a bug and apply the (trivial) patch, not send me away with an > admonishment that this is user error. :) I actually do the same kind of "not booted filesystem manipulation in an chrooted overlayfs" for the

Bug#1030024: systemd-cron: missing Breaks+Replaces: cruft-common (<< 0.9.44)

2023-01-30 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Thank you so much. This is deeply interesting. The same bug might happen in the 495 other packages that are candidate for using dh-cruft too (the one list in "rules/" in src:cruft). I will try to fix this at once in dh-cruft instead of requiring Break+Replaces everywhere. Simplest option

Bug#1031247: systemd-cron: trying to overwrite '/etc/cron.yearly/.placeholder', which is also in package systemd-cron

2023-02-13 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Please avoid breaking other packages on a random thought in an uncoordinated way. Please provide a patch for systemd-cron or NMU it. Alexandre Le lun. 13 févr. 2023 à 22:15, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > > Package: systemd-cron > Version: 1.15.19-4 > Severity: normal > > -BEGIN PGP

Bug#1040685: systemd-cron: the MAILTO variable in /etc/crontab is not applied to generated cron units environments

2023-07-09 Thread Alexandre Detiste
crontrol: tag -1 fixed-upstream Dear, Thanks for caring, Your feature request has been implemented upstream: https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/commit/e47e557820636905945b4bf5ff920339e259fbd5 As the repository is in the middle of a major rewrite, a new release won't be published

Bug#1040304: systemd-cron: apt-cacher-ng daily job fail with new no-run-parts mode

2023-07-04 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Package: systemd-cron Version: 1.15.21-1 Severity: normal Since the new version of systemd-cron that does not rely on run-parts to run the hourly/daily/weekly job as as whole; the ACNG job will fail most times. Something with the environment must be a tiny different. Greetings, ×

Bug#769895: init-system-helpers: deb-systemd-helper should remove timestamps on timer unit purge

2023-06-03 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Some functionality has since been implemented upstream in systemd (namely "systemd clean") but I can't get to work. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4930 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/89f6fe7b303875307e201449d9d821cdbb9eacac How to reproduce: install for example

Bug#1041785: /usr-merge: continuous archive analysis

2023-07-24 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Le dim. 23 juil. 2023 à 18:09, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > Please note that your email address bounces. I am therefore filing this > response as a Debian bug hoping to reach you this way. I strongly > recommend using a non-bouncing email provider for interacting with > Debian. The @detiste.be one

Bug#1042370: systemd-cron neew porting to python3.12

2023-07-26 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Package: systemd-cron Version: 1.16.1-1 Severity: normal The complex importlib machinery is deprecated. > DeprecationWarning: the load_module() method is deprecated > and slated for removal in Python 3.12; use exec_module() instead This warning will shop up when running test/test.py.

Bug#1041911: fails to parse regular entries

2023-07-25 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, >From the beginning systemd-cron was two other people half-project duck-taped together to give what we have in Debian. Since this started in 2014 I've got a bit better and I'm now reconsidering the plan to have a C-only version as the default cron-daemon that could be a good match for

Bug#1062357: systemd-cron: broken result mailing implementation

2024-01-31 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, 1) MAILFROM= is supported for a long time, is it enough ? v1.5.18 : 2020-12-26 Various improvements to email on error: * Revert "Use DynamicUser=yes for error email generator" * Use sysusers.d snippet instead * Support for MAILFROM variable [thanks MarcoCLA] 2) _cron-failure

Bug#1062357: systemd-cron: broken result mailing implementation

2024-02-01 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Le jeu. 1 févr. 2024 à 09:11, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > > 1) > > > > MAILFROM= is supported for a long time, is it enough ? > > > > v1.5.18 : 2020-12-26 > > Thanks. Good to know. It's not documented in the crontab(5) man page. I added it now. It matches cronie alternative implementation

Bug#1068439: systemd-cron: cron-update causes re-run of some past timers

2024-04-15 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi. Yes. [*] I will keep this one bug open here if in any case someone stumble on the same problems. [*]: this mean checking the Debian & upstream bug tracker for a possible duplicate, this might take a while; do you want to have a look ? At times I audit system/cronie/vixie cron for

Bug#1068439: systemd-cron: cron-update causes re-run of some past timers

2024-04-05 Thread Alexandre Detiste
control: tag -1 +moreinfo Thank you for your report. systemd-cron attempts to be the shallowest possible wrapper around systemd. Can you please try to reproduce the problem without systemd-cron involved; by copying the .timer / .service / .sh triplet from /run/systemd/generator into

Bug#1062357: systemd-cron: broken result mailing implementation

2024-02-29 Thread Alexandre Detiste
control: tag +1 help I'm running out of ideads. Le ven. 2 févr. 2024 à 08:32, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > > > Also, can this variable be configured in a file that is dropped into > > > some directory, to avoid editing the global /etc/crontab? e.g. > > > /etc/crontab.d/ or something similar?