Bug#642309: cron: truncates everything after '+' character

2011-09-21 Thread Teodor
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-120 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, In man 5 crontab there are a few examples with date +.. commands executed in cron jobs. However, none of these are working because cron considers '+' a special character and deletes the string after it. This is what I

Bug#642309: cron: truncates everything after '+' character

2011-09-21 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
severity 642309 minor thanks On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:04:21PM +0300, Teodor wrote: Dear Maintainer, In man 5 crontab there are a few examples with date +.. commands executed in cron jobs. However, none of these are working because cron considers '+' a special character and deletes the

Bug#642309: cron: truncates everything after '+' character

2011-09-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09/21/2011 10:32 PM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:04:21PM +0300, Teodor wrote: Dear Maintainer, In man 5 crontab there are a few examples with date +.. commands executed in cron jobs. However, none of these are working because cron considers '+' a

Bug#642309: cron: truncates everything after '+' character

2011-09-21 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
tag 642309 pending thanks On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:44:12PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Actually, it's the unescaped percent sign '%' causing the trouble. You are right, I have fixed this in git for the next release: commit fe274309d8d7e7787e06d2cb88ec4ed280b63805 Author: Javier