https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=270252 Summary: invalid entry causes cron to stop registering crontable changes Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nohezp@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de We have noticed a problem with cron. After submitting a invalid cron entry the daemon ignores any further changes to any cron tables. A restart of cron fixes this behaviour until the next invalid entry is submitted. To explain this lets say a user submits a cron entry: * * * * mon-fri (/path/to/command) The above entry is invalid as the manpage clearly mentions that "Ranges or lists of names are not allowed." in day of week column. But crontab accepts this silently and henceforth any change by any user is ignored till crond is restarted. Which implies that any user can trigger this bug and cause changes made by other users to their respective cron tables to be ignored. Removing this invalid entry does not fix the problem. cron has to be restarted. We know that this bug exists in the following: OpenSuSE 10.1 - cron-4.1-45.7.x86-64 OpenSuSE 10.3 - cron-4.1-88.i586 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.