Bug#1041911: fails to parse regular entries

2023-07-25 Thread Yuri D'Elia
> Which was simply not do-able with the previous codebase; > so I'm quite stuck in chicken & egg problem and need > to cut the knot somehow. > > I never wrote any unit test before (even at work ...) > so this is my first attempt: >

Bug#1041911: fails to parse regular entries

2023-07-25 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, >From the beginning systemd-cron was two other people half-project duck-taped together to give what we have in Debian. Since this started in 2014 I've got a bit better and I'm now reconsidering the plan to have a C-only version as the default cron-daemon that could be a good match for

Bug#1041911: fails to parse regular entries

2023-07-25 Thread Yuri D'Elia
Package: systemd-cron Version: 1.16.1-1 Severity: important Unfortunately 1.16.1 doesn't accept my existing crontab, failing on the already on first line: crontab: unknown schedule in /tmp/crontab_o81kjgn_: */5 * * * * fetch-mail It seems that any entry with a '*' gets rejected -- System