On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:50:25PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Since we switched to cronie in openSUSE 11.4, cron has been writing logmessages with the name of the executable in upper case, where as the previous cron daemon wrote in lower case.
I opened: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D780237
Vojtech (the maintainer) doesn't think this regression should be fixed, and closed it as WONTFIX. I think this regression should be fixed, even if nobody else has noticed it in 11.4 and 12.1.
Does anyone here have any thoughts on the matter? To me, it's clearly a regression and wrong - the executable name is logged as /USR/SBIN/CRON, which doesn't exist:
ls -l /USR/SBIN/CRON ls: cannot access /USR/SBIN/CRON: No such file or directory
It's to determine if a log message is caused by a child process or from the daemon. It looks like our man page is not up to date. As this has not been noticed for two full release cycles the issue can't be this important. Reverting the change without any further discussion with the cron autors I consider as the wrong approach. Wontfix might not be the correct resolution reason. I consider this a feature and not a bug. Please feel free to file a submit request to enhance the documentation/ man page. Cheers, Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany