Re: Changes to cron in update 7

Hi,

Anders Nielsen schrieb:
> I have updated today and this has broken some of my cron jobs. If 
> 
> If I put this in in my crontab for the user anielsen
> 
> USER="HELLO WORLD"
> * * * * * echo "$USER"
> 
> I now get "anielsen". Before I got "HELLO WORLD".
> 
> Why was this changed and will it be changed back?

I noticed another wierd behaviour in cron after the update to U7.
The cron daemon refused to start some cron jobs with 'Bad File Mode':

Mar 16 04:33:29 xyz crond[25798]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE 
(/etc/cron.d/domino_cleanup.d)

But the permissions on /etc/cron.d/domino_cleanup.d are alright:

# ls -la /etc/cron.d/domino_cleanup.d
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          130 16. Mär 14:49 
/etc/cron.d/domino_cleanup.d

and

# service crond restart

fixed the problem and cron runs fine again.

Thx
Rainer

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