Package: anacron Version: 2.3-39 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
anacrontab.5 says:
The
.I period_name
can only be set to monthly at the present time.\&
(note also the weird space at the end) the README says:
Anacron solves this problem. These jobs can simply be scheduled as
Anacron-jobs with periods of 1, 7 and a special target called @monthly.
but readtab.c says:
if (!strncmp ("@monthly", periods, 7)) {
jr->named_period = 1;
} else if (!strncmp("@yearly", periods, 7)) {
jr->named_period = 2;
} else {
complain("%s: Unknown named period on line %d, skipping",
anacrontab, line_num);
}
so the manual is wrong here.
Attaching a patch that mentions @yearly in the manual. I got lost
in the "source forge" bullshit listed as the upstream in d/control
and d/watch, and @monthly seems to come from d/p/debian-changes
anyway (it's tagged as accumulated upstream git but idk due to the
aforementioned), so please forward/squash into d/p/d-c at your
discretion.
Best,
наб
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Subject: anacrontab.5: mention @yearly Author: наб <[email protected]> --- anacron-2.3.orig/anacrontab.5 +++ anacron-2.3/anacrontab.5 @@ -28,11 +28,13 @@ The .I command can be any shell command.\& The fields can be separated by blank spaces or tabs.\& -The .I period_name -can only be set to monthly at the present time.\& +can be set to +.B monthly +or +.BR yearly .\& This will ensure jobs are only run once a month, no matter the number of days -in this month, or the previous month.\& +in this month, or the previous month; or analogously for the year.\& .PP Environment assignment lines are of the form: .PP
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