Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-105
Severity: minor
The effect of the -i option of crontab is not clear. According to the
crontab(1) man page, -i is accepted only for -r:
crontab [ -u user ] file
crontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r [ -i ] | -e }
whereas it seems to be accepted globally (however, it seems to have
an effect only on -r, though "crontab file" is IMHO as destructive
and possibly the -e option as well).
"crontab" usage information is also ambiguous:
usage: crontab [-u user] file
crontab [-u user] { -e | -l | -r }
(default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
-e (edit user's crontab)
-l (list user's crontab)
-r (delete user's crontab)
-i (prompt before deleting user's crontab)
-i is not mentioned in one of the first two lines.
I suggest that the -i option should remain global, so that the man page
and usage text should say:
crontab [ -i ] [ -u user ] file
crontab [ -i ] [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e }
and the documentation (man page and usage text) should say which
operation(s) this option -i affects.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
Versions of packages cron suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-13.1 cron-like program that doesn't go
pn checksecurity <none> (no description available)
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.11-0.1 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii logrotate 3.7.7-3 Log rotation utility
-- no debconf information
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