Hi Dave,
Thank you for your report,

I'll review it and fix it in next release (probably in some days).

Regards,
Francisco

El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 13:56 -0700, Dave Vehrs escribió:
> Package: lynis
> Version: 1.3.9-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I've encountered a small misconfiguration in an egrep search in a lynis 
> script.  When checking for crontab jobs, the script tests_scheduling 
> checks for lines that start with [0-9], and while this is appropriate 
> for most cases, it misses two that may still be an issue.  Both cases 
> involve when the crontab line starts with an '*'.
> 
> If the job in question should run every minute (so is just '*'), then 
> the line will be missed by the egrep test.
> 
> The second issue is if the job in question should run at a specified 
> interval, such as every 15 minutes.  That will be specified a */15 and 
> will also be missed.
> 
> I've been able to fix this issue by simply adding an '*' to the 
> characters to be searched by egrep.  (patch attached)  With that simple 
> change, it catches both of the missed crontab lines.
> 
> Thank you for your attention to this minor issue,
> 
> Dave Vehrs
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>    APT prefers testing-updates
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> lynis depends on no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages lynis recommends:
> ii  menu  2.1.46
> 
> Versions of packages lynis suggests:
> ii  dnsutils  1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

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Francisco M. García Claramonte 
Debian GNU/Linux Developer <franci...@debian.org>    
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