Package: anacron Version: 2.3-11 Severity: normal If jobs are started directly after reboot (from /etc/init.d/anacron, I presume), they don't have the normal 'cron' environment, but the one inherited from the init process (I had problems with chkrootkit evaluating $HOME and finding "/" in it, which is not what root has in his /etc/passwd entry, so I put some debug code into it; will file a bug against chkrootkit as well):
/etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: + set AUTOBOOT='YES' BOOT_IMAGE='linux' CONSOLE='/dev/console' HOME='/' IFS=' ' INIT_VERSION='sysvinit-2.86' OPTIND='1' PATH='/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin' PPID='3522' PREVLEVEL='N' PS1='# ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' PWD='/' RUNLEVEL='2' SHELL='/bin/sh' TERM='linux' devfs='nomount' es1371='0x200' js='auto' previous='N' runlevel='2' + id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) + /usr/bin/pstree -aAlu init |-S20xprint /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start | |-S20xprint /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start | | `-Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 +-fp/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/var/lib/defoma/x-tt +cidfont | `-S20xprint /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start |-anacron -s | `-sh -c nice\040run-parts\040--report\040/etc/cron.daily | `-run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily | `-chkrootkit -e /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit | `-chkrootkit /usr/sbin/chkrootkit -n -q | `-pstree -aAlu --snip-- Wouldn't it be more easy for the cron jobs to always be called with the environment the normal 'cron' calls them with? Later invocations are called like: /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: + set HOME='/root' IFS=' ' LOGNAME='root' OPTIND='1' PATH='/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin' PPID='5324' PS1='# ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' PWD='/' SHELL='/bin/sh' + id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) + /usr/bin/pstree -aAlu init |-S20xprint /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start | |-S20xprint /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start | | `-Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 +-fp/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/var/lib/defoma/x-tt +cidfont | `-S20xprint /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start |-anacron -s | `-sh -c nice\040run-parts\040--report\040/etc/cron.daily | `-run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily | `-chkrootkit -e /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit | `-chkrootkit /usr/sbin/chkrootkit -n -q | `-pstree -aAlu --snip-- -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (801, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-noname.2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages anacron depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.12 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- debconf information: anacron/jobs_in_crontab: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
