Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-05 Thread Philippe Teuwen
What I'd like to do is just leave this bug report open for now so other possibly affected users can see it, and fix after Squeeze. This change has also been present in Ubuntu since 10.10 and nobody noticed so far, so I guess the impact on users upgrading from Lenny - Squeeze should be

Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-04 Thread Philippe Teuwen
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: minor --- Please enter the report below this line. --- After upgrade from cron 3.0pl1-114 to 3.0pl1-116 I had the following problem: My log reporting system began to send me a lot of error messages from cron. Digging down it appears that the following

Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 608874 confirmed thanks Hi Philippe, On 01/04/2011 10:08 AM, Philippe Teuwen wrote: After upgrade from cron 3.0pl1-114 to 3.0pl1-116 I had the following problem: I can confirm the general issue, however this should have first appeared in -110, not -114 (see #581612, where we accidentally

Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-04 Thread Philippe Teuwen
After upgrade from cron 3.0pl1-114 to 3.0pl1-116 I had the following problem: I can confirm the general issue, however this should have first appeared in -110, not -114 (see #581612, where we accidentally sent mails on exit != 0, which we fixed in -112). Could you check your logs and

Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
On 01/04/2011 08:38 PM, Philippe Teuwen wrote: You're right that the problem was introduced earlier. I guess I saw it only after this upgrade because of an upgrade of logcheck as well and now logcheck reports me that error from /var/log/syslog. Ah, so it is also visible in the default