Bug#599897: cron: /etc/default/locale may miss

2010-10-13 Thread David Delon 

Hi Christian,

 I cannot reproduce this. When pam_env cannot find this file, it is
 simply ignored.

You're right and there is no bug.

Here was my poor reasoning:
1. My root crontabs aren't executed
2. When i downgrade cron to 3.0pl1-108, they are.
3. Changelog is talking about /etc/default/locale in 3.0pl1-114 and i miss this 
file

Hum...

The solution to my problem is that since 3.0pl1-109, /etc/init.d.cron 
inititializes the TZ environment variable
with /etc/timezone which contains by default Etc/UTC.
In fact my crontabs were executed 2 hours later (because my localtime is UTC+2).
I'm not used to inititialize /etc/timezone when i install a workstation (just 
/etc/localtime).

Please, accept my apologies.

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Bug#599897: cron: /etc/default/locale may miss

2010-10-12 Thread David Delon 

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-114
Severity: minor

Extract from /usr/share/doc/cron/changelog.Debian.gz:

  * debian/cron.pam:
- In addition to the reading /etc/security/pam_env.conf and 
  /etc/environment (obsolete config file) previous default,
  cron will now also read /etc/default/locale in order to setup
  the proper localisation environment for tasks.

When you install automatically some workstations with the debootstrap command 
for example,
the cron package will be installed (Priority: important).
The locales package is not mandatory so the configuration file 
/etc/default/locale may miss,
and cron do not execute any script from now.

I suggest to replace in /etc/pam.d/cron:
session   required   pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale
by:
session   optional   pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale

Thanks.



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Bug#599897: cron: /etc/default/locale may miss

2010-10-12 Thread Christian Kastner 
tag 599895 + unreproducible
thanks

Hi David,

On 10/12/2010 09:55 AM, David Delon wrote:
 Extract from /usr/share/doc/cron/changelog.Debian.gz:
 
   * debian/cron.pam:
 - In addition to the reading /etc/security/pam_env.conf and 
   /etc/environment (obsolete config file) previous default,
   cron will now also read /etc/default/locale in order to setup
   the proper localisation environment for tasks.
 
 When you install automatically some workstations with the debootstrap command 
 for example,
 the cron package will be installed (Priority: important).
 The locales package is not mandatory so the configuration file 
 /etc/default/locale may miss,
 and cron do not execute any script from now.

I cannot reproduce this. When pam_env cannot find this file, it is
simply ignored.

Could you please post some additional details on what exactly is
failing, eg the relevant crontab?

 I suggest to replace in /etc/pam.d/cron:
 session   required   pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale
 by:
 session   optional   pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale

The first approach is the one taken by other packages as well, eg:
login, sshd, su (with login being Priority: required).

Christian



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