| Summary: | cronie-anacron does not start hourly jobs located in /etc/cron.hourly | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Chris Denice <eatdirt> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Shlomi Fish <shlomif> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | marja11 |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | cronie-1.5.1-1.mga6.src.rpm | CVE: | |
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Description
Chris Denice
2016-08-22 18:45:58 CEST
Assigning to maintainer. (Can't check whether I have the same issue here, now, because I'm behind on updates on this system) CC:
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marja11 Ok, the bug is not in cronie-anacron itself, but really in "cronie". Anacron does not support less than a day "crontab", so this is not a bug of anacron, just a weird feature poorly documented. However, cronie, through crond.service, should read /etc/crontab (which looks fine) and should therefore enter /etc/cron.hourly and starts hourly jobs. However, it does not on my machine. That's indeed a security issue because we have "msec" in /etc/cron.hourly, which is therefore not executed!! (In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #1) > Assigning to maintainer. > > (Can't check whether I have the same issue here, now, because I'm behind on > updates on this system) I'm trying to reproduce it here. (In reply to Shlomi Fish from comment #3) > (In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #1) > > Assigning to maintainer. > > > > (Can't check whether I have the same issue here, now, because I'm behind on > > updates on this system) > > I'm trying to reproduce it here. I am unable to reproduce the problem on my Mageia v6 x86-64 system: « root@telaviv1:~$ cat /etc/cron.hourly/01cron-test-to-del #!/bin/bash echo "From cron.hourly cron test to del - $(date)" >> /var/tmp/cron-hourly-test.txt root@telaviv1:~$ cat /var/tmp/cron-hourly-test.txt From cron.hourly cron test to del - Tue Aug 23 13:01:01 IDT 2016 From cron.hourly cron test to del - Tue Aug 23 14:01:01 IDT 2016 root@telaviv1:~$ » So it seems to be working perfectly fine here. Does it still happen after you restart crond? ("service crond restart") Do any of the files have local modifications? Thanks for testing. No, I don't think so. Maybe it is a missing dep ? Could you tell me if these packages are installed: cronie cronie-anacron crontabs fcron incron kcron kcron-handbook man-db-cron packagekit-cron then I could try to search for what is wrong with my installation!? (In reply to Chris Denice from comment #5) > Thanks for testing. No, I don't think so. Maybe it is a missing dep ? > Could you tell me if these packages are installed: > > cronie > cronie-anacron > crontabs > fcron > incron > kcron > kcron-handbook > man-db-cron > packagekit-cron > root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q cronie cronie-1.5.1-1.mga6 root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q cronie-anacron cronie-anacron-1.5.1-1.mga6 root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q crontabs crontabs-1.10-22.mga6 root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q fcron package fcron is not installed root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q incron package incron is not installed root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q kcron package kcron is not installed root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q kcron-handbook package kcron-handbook is not installed root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q man-db-cron package man-db-cron is not installed root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q packagekit-cron package packagekit-cron is not installed root@telaviv1:~$ > then I could try to search for what is wrong with my installation!? Regards, -- Shlomi Sorry for the noise, that works. I had an issue with the jobs itself which was needed root shell variables to be set (fixed with a su root -c). Thanks!! Status:
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RESOLVED Thanks for the update, Chris! I'm glad it is working for you. |