On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 06:44:16PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hope the problem is solved now. :-)
I will open a new bug if it isn't ;-)
Thanks for providing a great tool.
Greetings
Marc
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Hi Marc
Good to know, thanks. Yes it is possible that it did a CRC16
check before. That would make sense as extracting the first
five characters would have been a bit odd otherwise.
Hope the problem is solved now. :-)
// Ola
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:26:02AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri,
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:14:36AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I assume you discovered this case by inspection of the code rather
> than in actual practice. This would be a very unlikely case to ever
> hit in real life. If it did then it would produce one spurious cron
> email out of years of runs
Ah! I missed that $$ part of the command. You are right, that would
have solved it too. Anyway %N is even better so I'll stick to the
uploaded variant.
// Ola
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:48:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hi Ola,
>
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=
Hi Ola,
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | awk
> > '{print$1}')
> >
> > Splitting on whitespace is more resilient to input differences than
> > splitting on each space character. IMNHO using awk for field
> > selection is almost always better t
Hi Bob
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:14:36AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hi Ola, Marc,
>
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > I'm also adding Bob into this mail chain as he was the one that wrote the
> > code for RANDOM in 2004.
>
> Actually I had suggested the randomization using $RANDOM in email in
> May 20
Hi Ola, Marc,
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> I'm also adding Bob into this mail chain as he was the one that wrote the
> code for RANDOM in 2004.
Actually I had suggested the randomization using $RANDOM in email in
May 2003 and after discussion with Ola it settled on using #!/bin/bash
to support it. I t
Hi again
I'm also adding Bob into this mail chain as he was the one that wrote the
code for RANDOM in 2004.
When testing this out I noticed the following:
ola@quartz:~/svn/fsp/cron-apt$ dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum
2815760522 512
ola@quartz:~/svn/fsp/cron-apt$ echo "2815760522
Hi Marc
Thanks. Ah, yes I did not think of that case. Will apply.
// Ola
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 07:08:22PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: cron-apt
> Severity: normal
>
> Please consider the following patch:
>
> --- cron-apt.orig 2012-10-07 19:07:15.772153360 +0200
> +++ cron-apt
Package: cron-apt
Severity: normal
Please consider the following patch:
--- cron-apt.orig 2012-10-07 19:07:15.772153360 +0200
+++ cron-apt2012-10-07 19:07:32.748173175 +0200
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
if [ $RUNSLEEP -gt 0 ] ; then
if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then
# A fix fo
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