On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:32 pm, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> > (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still
> > reading this list)
> >
> > Well, at least partially. :-)
> >
> > In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new kernel
> > (2.4.21- 0.24mdk) causing all files to be written as world
> > writable, I noticed something else in my system processes.  My
> > morning E-Mail from my nightly cron jobs reported:
> >
> > /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `m': invalid format
> > character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid
> > format character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@':
> > invalid format character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf:
> > `m': invalid format character
> >
> > Nothing has been changed in that file.  This only showed up with
> > the new kernel in place.  Please go over the new kernel and release
> > a bugfix for these two problems.  Thanks!
>
> Ummm... let's be a little logical here.
>
> Why would you blame the kernel for something in msec?  The kernel
> touches /boot and /lib/modules... why would it have anything to do
> with msec?
>
> Did you look at line 66 of that file?  What does it say?
>
> The previous issue could potentially be attributed to the kernel, but
> I highly doubt it.  This one I think attributing to the kernel is
> pretty far-fetched.

I'm now seeing similar behavior under both the old and new kernels. 
However, I never saw the behavior before installing 0.24mdk.

kernel-2.4.21-0.24mdk:
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `U': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `y': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `T': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `p': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `m': invalid format character


kernel-2.4.21-0.18md:
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `U': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `y': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `T': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `p': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
/etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `m': invalid format character

Below is a list of the packages installed since the last clean admin 
report 07-22-2003 at 10:11:34 am. The arts packages are rebuilt from 
cooker SRPMs. I also rebuilt and installed kdelibs (29mdk), but that 
was after problem showed up.

libarts-devel-1.1.2-8mdk         Tue 22 Jul 2003 09:58:58 PM CDT
arts-1.1.2-8mdk                  Tue 22 Jul 2003 09:58:56 PM CDT
libarts-1.1.2-8mdk               Tue 22 Jul 2003 09:58:43 PM CDT
kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.24mdk        Tue 22 Jul 2003 04:21:12 PM CDT
kernel-source-2.4.21-0.24mdk     Tue 22 Jul 2003 04:12:07 PM CDT
kernel-2.4.21.0.24mdk-1-1mdk     Tue 22 Jul 2003 02:09:39 PM CDT

Arn



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