-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-02-12 at 09:21 -0000, Michal Seben wrote:
Hi all!
Next week I will move cronie[1] package to Factory, so it will replace old cron. If someone is against this step, please just write what's wrong.
As I announced earlier, you could find Cronie in Base:System repo [2] there is also prepared wiki about known changes after switch to cronie [3]
I found a mis-feature of cronie: If a user has a crontab entry that starts with a dash (meaning: don't log) the entire line is skipped. Existing crontab entries like that fail silently. If a user tries to create a crontab with a line like that, he gets an error: File /tmp/crontab.hA3Nld saved crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.hA3Nld":5: bad option errors in crontab file, can't install. that doesn't explain anything. However, there is an entry in the syslog that does: ... crontab 4032 - - (CRON) ERROR (Only privileged user can disable logging) This is hardcoded, it is not possible to disable; see: https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/browser/src/entry.c, *load_entry(). The possible workaround is to add a file to /etc/cron.d/, where entries have a syntax that specifies under which user the entry runs, and allows the dash. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3q5gQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VQmgCfVo1fFvNRVz7Q9/KEuD8rc3Kn WPUAmwaczs1QyoOjL6KG2+a+3ddwIh5p =tuYF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org