Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-115
Severity: minor
In the "EXAMPLE CRON FILE" section of crontab(5), there is this example:
# Run on every second Saturday of the month
0 4 8-15 * * test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
The range of days (8-15) in this example is one day too wide. In months
starting with a Saturday, the echo command will be executed both on the
8th (the second Saturday, as desired) and on the 15th (the third
Saturday). The range should be corrected to "8-14".
Also, when viewing crontab(5) with
man 5 crontab
the line above is actually shown like this:
0 4 8-15 * * test $(date +u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
I.e. the percent sign and the backslash escaping it are missing. I suspect
the backslash has not been properly escaped itself in the manpage source.
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
not set
--- usr/bin/editor:
/bin/nano
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 35040 Oct 16 13:37 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 25 2009 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Sep 28 2008 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii exim4 4.72-2 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.72-2 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.15 Programs for locking and unlocking
Versions of packages cron suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go
pn checksecurity <none> (no description available)
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages cron is related to:
pn libnss-ldap <none> (no description available)
pn libnss-ldapd <none> (no description available)
pn libpam-ldap <none> (no description available)
pn libpam-mount <none> (no description available)
pn nis <none> (no description available)
pn nscd <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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