Bugs in package cron (version 3.0pl1-196) in unstable -- Debian Bug report logs

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Confirmed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Patch Available (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (26 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (3 bugs)
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Resolved bugs -- Minor bugs (4 bugs)

#1100685 [i| |☣] [unattended-upgrades, needrestart] unattended-upgrades and needrestart may restart services until systemd stops starting them
Reported by: Helmut Grohne <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:51:01 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 32 days ago; Modified 32 days ago;

#630538 [n| | ] [cron] cron: messages are logged with wrong PID
Reported by: chris <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:54:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-105; Filed 14 years and 100 days ago; Modified 1 year and 267 days ago;

#251791 [n| | ] [cron] cron: oddity / inconsistency in do_command.c:child_process() in pam handling
Reported by: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:48:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 3.0pl1-83.se1; Filed 20 years and 328 days ago; Modified 20 years and 328 days ago;
#540739 [n| | ] [cron] Should allow the sysadmin to edit cron jobs for other SE Linux roles
Reported by: Russell Coker <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-105; Filed 15 years and 256 days ago; Modified 15 years and 7 days ago;
#580887 [n| | ] [cron] notify user if his crontab is no longer valid upon upgrade
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 15:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-110; Filed 14 years and 348 days ago; Modified 13 years and 319 days ago;
#766851 [n| | ] [cron] cron: @reboot jobs dying on cron upgrades
Reported by: Zlatko Calusic <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:39:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-127; Filed 10 years and 177 days ago; Modified 10 years and 177 days ago;
#1091521 [n| | ] [cron] cron: /usr/sbin/CRON deadlock if libpam-fscrypt is installed
Reported by: Pawel Jasiak <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-162; Filed 112 days ago; Modified 112 days ago;

#909200 [n|+☹| ] [cron] Please call pam_systemd in the PAM service
Reported by: Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:06:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, wontfix; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-130; Filed 6 years and 213 days ago; Modified 2 years and 268 days ago;

#1072864 [m|+| ] [cron] crontab.5: some remarks and editorial changes for this man page
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:03:00 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-189; Filed 313 days ago; Modified 313 days ago;

#571176 [m| | ] [cron] error messages off by one line
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:51:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-106; Filed 15 years and 58 days ago; Modified 14 years and 355 days ago;
#710803 [m| | ] [cron] cron: systematically creates a temporary file in /tmp every hour
Reported by: SaintGermain <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 14:39:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-124; Filed 11 years and 323 days ago; Modified 11 years and 316 days ago;
#814678 [m| | ] [cron] cron: No information given about syntax error in /etc/crontab
Reported by: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:03:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-124; Filed 9 years and 67 days ago; Modified 8 years and 354 days ago;

#30655 [w|+| ] [cron] allow user-started daemons
Reported by: Topi Miettinen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version 3.0pl1-49; Filed 26 years and 134 days ago; Modified 14 years and 64 days ago;
#440314 [w|+| ] [cron] cron: Support environment-configurable MAILCMD instead of /usr/lib/sendmail
Reported by: Joerg Hoh <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:51:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-100; Filed 17 years and 235 days ago; Modified 17 years and 39 days ago;
#620392 [w|+|=] [cron] cron looses job output if no mta is installed
Reported by: Adam Heath <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:39:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Merged with 670118; Found in versions cron/3.0pl1-106, cron/3.0pl1-121; Filed 14 years and 21 days ago; Modified 12 years and 292 days ago;

#19237 [w| | ] [cron] crontab should support TMPDIR env variable
Reported by: Steve Greenland <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 04:03:39 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in versions 3.0pl1-43, cron/3.0pl1-124; Filed 27 years and 47 days ago; Modified 6 years and 144 days ago;
#31027 [w| | ] [cron] $HOME not expanded in PATH= statement
Reported by: Martin Schulze <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:18:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.0pl1-49; Filed 26 years and 123 days ago; Modified 17 years and 330 days ago;
#50982 [w| | ] [cron] cron: weird logging
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.0pl1-53; Filed 25 years and 154 days ago; Modified 22 years and 163 days ago;
#102829 [w| |=] [cron] unstuck nfs mount should not cause several days worth of cron jobs at once
Reported by: Erno Kuusela <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:34:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 194805; Found in versions 3.0pl1-69, 3.0pl1-73; Filed 23 years and 299 days ago; Modified 17 years and 47 days ago;
#233632 [w| | ] [cron] crontab: Allow symbolic ranges e.g. Jan-Mar, Mon-Fri
Reported by: Jari Aalto <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.0pl1-83; Filed 21 years and 65 days ago; Modified 21 years and 65 days ago;
#274878 [w| | ] [cron] cron: crontab: "last" option in field DAYS
Reported by: AntiTrust <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:33:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.0pl1-86++higher; Filed 20 years and 201 days ago; Modified 20 years and 201 days ago;
#293272 [w| | ] [cron] cron: "@include common-session" in PAM config logs to auth.log
Reported by: Andrew Pimlott <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 04:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.0pl1-86; Filed 20 years and 81 days ago; Modified 1 year and 140 days ago;
#373152 [w| |=] [cron] cron should randomize /etc/crontab to be more friendly to virtual servers
Reported by: Olivier Macchioni <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:33:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 522419; Found in versions cron/3.0pl1-105, cron/3.0pl1-86; Filed 18 years and 315 days ago; Modified 12 years and 345 days ago;
#400317 [w| | ] [cron] cron: Consider chdir to a standard location for system cron jobs
Reported by: Erich Schubert <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 273 days ago; Modified 16 years and 142 days ago;
#484743 [w| | ] [cron] wish that crontab had pam support
Reported by: Russell Coker <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-100; Filed 16 years and 321 days ago; Modified 14 years and 342 days ago;
#511780 [w| | ] [cron] new upstream version / switch to ISC cron 4.1?
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-105; Filed 16 years and 98 days ago; Modified 15 years and 36 days ago;
#561295 [w| | ] [cron] It's too easy to delete crontab via `crontab -r`
Reported by: David Black <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in versions cron/3.0pl1-105, cron/3.0pl1-118; Filed 15 years and 128 days ago; Modified 13 years and 247 days ago;
#575197 [w| | ] [cron] crontab should support --help and --version options
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-107; Filed 15 years and 30 days ago; Modified 15 years and 30 days ago;
#583714 [w| | ] [cron] insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `cron' overwrites defaults (1).
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 00:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-111; Filed 14 years and 328 days ago; Modified 13 years and 206 days ago;
#599160 [w| | ] [cron] cron: Please document applied patches and/or use quilt
Reported by: Allard Hoeve <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-114; Filed 14 years and 200 days ago; Modified 14 years and 199 days ago;
#603905 [w| | ] [cron] cron: Add niceness to /etc/default
Reported by: Patrik Schindler <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-105; Filed 14 years and 155 days ago; Modified 14 years and 155 days ago;
#608857 [w| | ] [cron] cron: Please add the configurable CRONTAB_UTC patch by Björn Danielsson
Reported by: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 03:21:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-116; Filed 14 years and 109 days ago; Modified 11 years and 92 days ago;
#618317 [w| | ] [cron] cron: log an error when a file under /etc/cron.d will not be processed
Reported by: Vincent den Boer <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:03:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-116; Filed 14 years and 39 days ago; Modified 12 years and 292 days ago;
#620851 [w| | ] [cron] Don't skip at least partially valid crontabs
Reported by: xavier renaut <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:48:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-106; Filed 15 years and 161 days ago; Modified 14 years and 18 days ago;
#625492 [w| | ] [cron] Errors preventing crontab execution should be logged at higher priority
Reported by: "Karl O. Pinc" <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 20:51:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-116; Filed 13 years and 354 days ago; Modified 13 years and 350 days ago;
#640086 [w| | ] [cron] say how to write 'last Xday of the month'
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:30:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in versions cron/3.0pl1-119, cron/3.0pl1-124; Filed 13 years and 233 days ago; Modified 10 years and 364 days ago;
#655339 [w| | ] [cron] option to soften system crontab restrictions
Reported by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:02:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-116; Filed 13 years and 102 days ago; Modified 13 years and 96 days ago;
#687807 [w| | ] [cron] cron: Support timezone in /etc/default/cron
Reported by: Chen Wei <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-124; Filed 12 years and 218 days ago; Modified 12 years and 218 days ago;
#688716 [w| | ] [cron] cron: optionally inherit PATH from parent process
Reported by: Tom Jones <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-116; Filed 12 years and 209 days ago; Modified 3 years and 256 days ago;
#707074 [w| | ] [cron] cron: Please enable audit support by default
Reported by: Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 09:15:11 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-124; Filed 11 years and 349 days ago; Modified 10 years and 341 days ago;
#770252 [w| | ] [cron] crond should use Auto-Submitted header in outbound mail
Reported by: "Michael Fischer v. Mollard" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-127; Filed 10 years and 153 days ago; Modified 10 years and 153 days ago;

#460070 [w|☹| ] [cron] cron: Using day-of-month and day-of-week together doesn't work as expected
Reported by: Chris Butler <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: not-a-bug, wontfix; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-100; Filed 17 years and 103 days ago; Modified 1 year and 234 days ago;
#484349 [w|☹| ] [cron] cron: should have a load-limit making it not run when a certain load has reached
Reported by: Folkert van Heusden <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-104; Filed 16 years and 323 days ago; Modified 15 years and 4 days ago;
#771629 [w|☹| ] [cron] cron: Please add ProtectSystem=yes to systemd service file
Reported by: Micah Anderson <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 03:54:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-127; Filed 10 years and 142 days ago; Modified 1 year and 220 days ago;

#1071709 [i| |☺] [cron] cron: Error Since Last Update
Reported by: Michael Ott <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 03:09:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-190; Fixed in version cron/3.0pl1-195; Done: Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 330 days ago; Modified 15 days ago;

#1101921 [n| |☺] [cron] crontab.5: example for use of \% disappears when manpage is rendered
Reported by: Lupe Christoph <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 10:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-162; Fixed in version cron/3.0pl1-195; Done: Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 16 days ago; Modified 15 days ago;

#1079207 [m| |☺] [cron] reportbug: crontab.1 has no mention of sensible-editor
Reported by: Thomas Dupond <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:09:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-162; Fixed in version cron/3.0pl1-195; Done: Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 240 days ago; Modified 15 days ago;
#1085713 [m| |☺] [cron] cron.8: Some remarks about this man page
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:30:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-189; Fixed in version cron/3.0pl1-195; Done: Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 179 days ago; Modified 15 days ago;
#1086495 [m| |☺] [cron] cron: Manpage includes outdated information
Reported by: Marco Moock <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:39:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-190; Fixed in version cron/3.0pl1-195; Done: Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 169 days ago; Modified 15 days ago;
#1102192 [m|+|☺] [cron] cron: Issues in man pages of cron
Reported by: Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 08:57:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version cron/3.0pl1-195; Fixed in version cron/3.0pl1-196; Done: Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 18 days; Filed 12 days ago; Modified 11 days ago;

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Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package cron (version 3.0pl1-196) in unstable

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