Package: cron-apt
Severity: normal
Please consider the following patch:
--- cron-apt.orig 2012-10-07 19:07:15.772153360 +0200
+++ cron-apt 2012-10-07 19:07:32.748173175 +0200
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
if [ $RUNSLEEP -gt 0 ] ; then
if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then
# A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature.
- RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut
-c"1-5")
+ RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -d'
' -f1)
fi
TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RUNSLEEP))
sleep $TIME
which will help cron-apt to gracefully handle the case where the
checksum returned by cksum is shorter than four digits.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.5.4-zgws1 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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