[Bug 2056461] Re: autopkgtest-virt-qemu on noble images sometimes hangs doing copydown

2024-06-14 Thread Christian Kastner
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1071456 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1071456 ** Changed in: autopkgtest (Debian) Status: Fix Committed => Unknown ** Changed in: autopkgtest (Debian) Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #1068363 => Debian Bug tracker #1071456

Re: [Bug 2056461] Re: autopkgtest-virt-qemu on noble images sometimes hangs doing copydown

2024-06-12 Thread Christian Kastner
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2056461 Title: autopkgtest-virt-qemu on noble images sometimes hangs doing copydown To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 2056461] Re: autopkgtest-virt-qemu on noble images sometimes hangs doing copydown

2024-05-21 Thread Christian Kastner
The Debian ROCm Team has also seen this in their CI instance. One data point that might be relevant is that in our case, all our failures were limited to autopkgtests where there was a reboot between tests. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1821566] Re: cron ignores whole crontab if one line has error

2019-03-25 Thread Christian Kastner
I'm afraid that this is by design, to prevent a malicious user from dumping basically anything into one of the crontab directories. An attacker once compromised a debian.org host by triggering a crafted core dump in one of the crontab directories, and the daemon kept trying to execute lines until

[Bug 1110147] Re: Error in manual

2019-03-11 Thread Christian Kastner
This was fixed in -121. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1110147 Title: Error in manual To manage notifications

Re: [Bug 1819369] Re: When specifying minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week values/ranges, given day-of-month range is *ignored*

2019-03-10 Thread Christian Kastner
rumps your specification of column 3. The man page contains an example for how to work around this. -- Christian Kastner ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 1608269] Re: Sync request for gitinspector

2016-08-01 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-08-01 07:40, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > This was auto-synced to Ubuntu "yakkety" already: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gitinspector/0.4.4+dfsg-4 > > Until Debian Import Freeze, packages that are not current modified in > Ubuntu are automatically synced to Ubuntu so there's no need

[Bug 1608269] [NEW] Sync request for gitinspector

2016-07-31 Thread Christian Kastner
Public bug reported: Hi, I would like to request a sync of gitinspector-0.4.4+dfsg-4 from Debian unstable. I recently uploaded fixes for two bugs that were initially reported upstream:   * https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector/issues/120   * https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector/issues/121 These

Re: [Bug 1534377] Re: cron does not read $PATH

2016-01-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-01-19 04:01, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote: > Just so you know, it *is* a cron command. > Gnome Schedule is nothing but a pretty gui to crontab. And that pretty GUI is from an entirely separate package than package cron, against which you reported the bug. > I suggest you be a bit

Re: [Bug 1534377] [NEW] cron does not read $PATH

2016-01-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-01-15 00:47, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote: > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games > > Gnome _schedule command preview=/usr/local/bin/bup ^^ That's not a cron command, that is some independent Gnome frontend. cron only

[Bug 1451286] Re: crontab -r deletes cron entries without asking for confirmation

2015-06-08 Thread Christian Kastner
This is a valid request. I've linked this bug to the corresponding bug in Debian's cron. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #561295 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561295 ** Also affects: cron (Debian) via

Re: [Bug 1429427] [NEW] Unexplainable time jumps in CRON

2015-06-08 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 2015-03-07 18:16, sgofferj wrote: On my main server I see unexplainable time jumps backwards in the syslog. Those jumps affect CRON. Example: Feb 10 06:48:01 nostromo CRON[20351]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2/dev/null 1/dev/null) Feb 10 06:49:01 nostromo

[Bug 1067779] Re: missing pam_loginuid.so breaks getlogin()

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
3.0pl1-124.1ubuntu1 contains a fix for this. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067779 Title:

[Bug 327190] Re: User Crontab is outside of GUI session

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
cron jobs are started by the cron daemon which is completely unrelated to your GUI session, or any other session that might be active for the user. As ccooke pointed out, if you want access to an unrelated session, you're going to have to do it manually. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)

[Bug 790173] Re: Cron doesn't send output properly

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Fix ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released ** Package changed: cron (Ubuntu) = speech-dispatcher (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790173 Title: Cron

[Bug 1067779] Re: missing pam_loginuid.so breaks getlogin()

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
3.0pl1-124.1ubuntu1 contains a fix for this. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067779 Title: missing

[Bug 794141] Re: cron needs to re-lookup users when trying to run a job

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794141 Title: cron needs to re-lookup users when trying to run a job To manage

[Bug 872552] Re: Too long line in crontab isn't executed

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 826702 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826702 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 826702 crontab cuts off file names at 100 characters -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 934337] Re: cron truncates command before execution, gives no erro

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 826702 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826702 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 826702 crontab cuts off file names at 100 characters -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 826702] Re: crontab cuts off file names at 100 characters

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
In the mean time, this limit has been raised to 1000 chars. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826702 Title: crontab cuts off file names at 100 characters To manage notifications about

[Bug 826702] Re: crontab cuts off file names at 100 characters

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
A fix has been prepared that recognizes too long commands and produces an error message when attempting to create one, both via crontab(1) and cron(8). Furthermore, this limit has been documented in the man pages. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- You

[Bug 985924] Re: Permission denied for custom entries in /etc/crontab

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Closed as per submitter's request ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985924 Title: Permission denied for custom entries in

[Bug 917231] Re: Mutual exclusion for cronjobs

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
While an interesting concept, I believe cron is the wrong tool for this job. Fixing this in cron would not ensure mutual exclusion in the cases where these scripts are called by other means, eg manual calls. The correct solution for backup_to_media and backup_to_file -- or any other program that

[Bug 1148594] Re: [12.04] crontab -e is not showing PATH in the example, so the example with tar will fail

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
The man page for crontab(5) states that PATH is initialized with /usr/bin:/bin, so the tar invocation in the example is correct. Or did I misunderstand your question? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1280808] Re: Support for afterwards execution of missing jobs

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
The feature you are describing is the exact purpose of anacron. Could you elaborate what you mean by hasn't the precision of cron? What can cron do that you can't do with /etc/anacrontab? BTW, it doesn't make sense for anacron to be a full-time daemon, because when the system is up, you already

[Bug 1316036] Re: cron package does not install MTA

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Apparently the MTA dependency in Ubuntu's cron has been demoted from Recommends (as it is in Debian), to a Suggests, so this bug should be re-assigned to Ubuntu's installation documentation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1277493] Re: MAILTO Environment Variable is ignored when set in a file in /etc/cron.d/

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Could you check your MTA's log files (and /var/log/cron.*, if you have it) for clues as to what could be going on? I just tried this locally and it works fine: both mails are sent, and the MAILTO header is included. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1337576] Re: cron starts binary with /bin/sh

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
This is mandated by POSIX, see http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/crontab.html ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1148594] Re: [12.04] crontab -e is not showing PATH in the example, so the example with tar will fail

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
OK, closing then. Thank you for your quick reply! ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1148594 Title: [12.04] crontab -e is not

[Bug 1337576] Re: dash inability - cron starts binary with /bin/sh

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Perhaps I should have been more clearer: the POSIX standard mandates that the command field (that's everything in the sixth column of a crontab file) be passed as arguments to /bin/sh: | The sixth field of a line in a crontab entry is a string | that shall be executed by sh at the specified

[Bug 1337576] Re: dash inability - cron starts binary with /bin/sh

2014-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Re-assigning to dash then. ** Package changed: cron (Ubuntu) = dash (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1337576 Title: dash inability - cron starts binary with /bin/sh To

[Bug 686784] Re: python-pyfann examples don't work

2014-03-02 Thread Christian Kastner
I believed that the issue has been resolved since 2.1.0~beta~dfsg-6, where the examples were moved into the -doc package, which recommends both libfann-dev and python-pyfann so that all examples can be run. ** Changed in: libfann (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this

Re: [Bug 878155] Re: [MIR] cron pulls in b-d's from universe

2011-10-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 10/20/2011 01:23 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: This brings us in line with the Debian cron package, which links against libaudit. I was surprised to see that libaudit wasn't already in main. FYI: by default, cron does not link against libaudit. Support for libaudit is an optional feature that

[Bug 486558] Re: /etc/default/cron obsolete?

2011-10-09 Thread Christian Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 794082 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794082 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 794082 cron ignores /etc/default/cron -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 706491] Re: upstart init script not using /etc/defaults/cron

2011-10-09 Thread Christian Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 794082 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794082 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 79408 Users should be enabled to ignore crashes for certain apps ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 794082 cron ignores /etc/default/cron -- You

[Bug 794082] Re: cron ignores /etc/default/cron

2011-10-09 Thread Christian Kastner
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 79408 Users should be enabled to ignore crashes for certain apps -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794082 Title: cron ignores

[Bug 794141] Re: cron needs to re-lookup users when trying to run a job

2011-08-10 Thread Christian Kastner
cron 3.0pl1-119, recently uploaded to Debian unstable, contains a patch that forces a rescan of ORPHANed crontabs. Credit for the fix goes to Fedora cronie, from where it was taken. I'll try to get this sync'ed over the weekend, together with some other bugfixes for cron in Ubuntu. -- You

[Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-08-10 Thread Christian Kastner
cron 3.0pl1-119, recently uploaded to Debian unstable, contains a patch that forces a rescan of ORPHANed crontabs. Credit for the fix goes to Fedora cronie, from where it was taken. I'll try to get this sync'ed over the weekend, together with some other bugfixes for cron in Ubuntu. -- You

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/18/2011 11:29 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 18.06.2011 03:39, schrieb Christian Kastner: As I mentioned earlier, I have a fix in mind for the next release which should resolve the issue in a manner not conflicting with the other goals. next release doesn't help those running LTS

[Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
** Changed in: cron (Debian) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27520 Title: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN

Re: [Bug 794141] [NEW] cron needs to re-lookup users when trying to run a job

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/07/2011 06:34 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: Please backport the fix for LP: #27520 to all supported releases. It breaks, among others, on lucid. There's a problem here: #27520 was never fixed. As it turned out, there was a misunderstanding: the LSB init script headers (where the problem was

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon starts before LDAP/NIS client, causing ORPHAN message for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/07/2011 06:13 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: Note that while the trigger is cron starting before the respective user database (NIS, LDAP, whatever), cron should really re-check each time to be resilient to temporary network hicc-ups. In general, cron does not contain a single line of

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/08/2011 12:30 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: In the longer term, obviously it would be great for cron better integrate with network-based user databases, but it would be nice to hear from some Ubuntu developers whether that sort of change is likely to get backported to Lucid? This

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/08/2011 01:52 AM, Graeme wrote: Regardless, it's been my experience that Ubuntu doesn't backport fixes of this nature to releases that have already shipped. I've found that the bugs must constitute a clear, widespread problem for a majority of users before a backport is even considered.

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/08/2011 11:12 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 08.06.2011 01:17, schrieb Christian Kastner: Theoretically, this could easily be extended to #27520 -- just a few lines of code, actually -- but it's just not that simple, because there are cases where ORPHAN is completely valid, ie the user

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/08/2011 11:14 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: - it often takes longer than a year for a bug report to be triaged at all, not even thinking of looked at by the packagers -- even for things that are clearly upstream bugs and need to be delegated outside Ubuntu, which doesn't require packager

[Bug 756574] Re: cron forgets to run user jobs

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Kastner
No, -Ln only affects logging of jobs. The ORPHAN messages come from the parsing part of the code, and always appear irregardless of any n value. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/756574

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon caches user-non-existent lookup results, causing ORPHAN message and skipping jobs for all LDAP/NIS-defined users

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/08/2011 12:53 AM, Graeme wrote: Nathan: I think that since this bug sat untouched from 2005-2010, you can guess that the answer is going to be No, don't care. If you look at the changelog for recent versions of cron, you can see that somebody does care for bug reports. I'm just happy if

Re: [Bug 790173] [NEW] Cron doesn't send output properly

2011-05-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/30/2011 01:45 PM, Marcel Svitalsky wrote: The problem is that when run by cron on my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04.2 I don't get the output in mail but only 'expr: syntax error' line instead. Obviously I thought there was some error in the script at first, but after trying and checking

Re: [Bug 790173] [NEW] Cron doesn't send output properly

2011-05-30 Thread Christian Kastner
(oops, accidentally hit send) On 05/30/2011 01:45 PM, Marcel Svitalsky wrote: The problem is that when run by cron on my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04.2 I don't get the output in mail but only 'expr: syntax error' line instead. Obviously I thought there was some error in the script at first,

Re: [Bug 790173] Re: Cron doesn't send output properly

2011-05-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/30/2011 03:25 PM, Marcel Svitalsky wrote: No, that's not correct. I do not use this syntax in the script at all. Besides, as I've mentioned above, not only the script runs OK from command line, it also runs OK from cron on Ub.-8.04 and it actually runs OK even here on Ub.-10.04.2 (it

Re: [Bug 790173] Re: Cron doesn't send output properly

2011-05-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/30/2011 04:16 PM, Marcel Svitalsky wrote: - and eventually in /etc/profile.d/speechd-user-port.sh the line: export SPEECHD_PORT=$(expr 6560 + $(getent passwd $USER | cut -f 3 -d :)) So my initial guess fits indeed: broken variable expansion. In this case, it must be $USER (because it's

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron daemon starts before LDAP client, causing ORPHAN message for all LDAP-defined users

2011-05-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/11/2011 12:16 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: I see that LP: #605123 describes a similar situation when cron is started before the likewise-open daemons, while the Debian BTS 512757 mentioned above relates to NIS users, etc. I discussed this problem recently with one of the upstart

[Bug 741979] Re: cron ignores group-writable crontab, with obscure message

2011-05-03 Thread Christian Kastner
** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Christian Kastner (ckk) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741979 Title: cron ignores group-writable crontab, with obscure

[Bug 741979] Re: cron ignores group-writable crontab, with obscure message

2011-05-03 Thread Christian Kastner
The pending upload of -117 replaces the WRONG INODE INFO message with proper messages indicating what exactly went wrong. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741979 Title: cron ignores

[Bug 770839] Re: libfann version 2.1.0~beta~dfsg-2build1 failed to build on amd64 with GCC-4.6/oneiric

2011-04-26 Thread Christian Kastner
The error comes from the build dependency on swig. Switching to swig2.0 resolves the issue; a fix has been committed for the Debian package. ** Changed in: libfann (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 770413] [NEW] Sync libfann for bugfix

2011-04-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Public bug reported: source: libfann version: 2.1.0~beta~dfsg-3 where: Debian sid main This version would fix LP: #712290. I know it's a bit close to release, but the above upstream change is the only one since the last upload. Otherwise the release contains only trivial packaging updates.

Re: [Bug 756574] Re: cron forgets to run user jobs

2011-04-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 04/18/2011 07:09 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: On 11-04-18 12:26 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: With root crontabs (as opposed to non-root), do you mean the system crontabs /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d, or root's actual crontab (via crontab -e as root)? Both. All crontabs continue to run

[Bug 756574] Re: cron forgets to run user jobs

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Kastner
With root crontabs (as opposed to non-root), do you mean the system crontabs /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d, or root's actual crontab (via crontab -e as root)? Is there any possibility of the crontabs temporarily disappearing (eg: remote filesystem)? -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 723423] Re: crond ignores symlinks in /etc/cron.d

2011-03-24 Thread Christian Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 741979 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741979 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 741979 cron ignores group-writable crontab, with obscure message * You can subscribe to bug 741979 by following this link:

[Bug 734693] Re: Cron does not work for LDAP-users

2011-03-14 Thread Christian Kastner
in: cron (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Christian Kastner (ckk) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/734693 Title: Cron does not work for LDAP-users -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

Re: [Bug 723423] [NEW] crond ignores symlinks in /etc/cron.d

2011-02-26 Thread Christian Kastner
On 02/22/2011 11:28 PM, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: If have some symlinks below /etc/cron.d pointing to another directory (configuration repository). /etc/cron.d has no recursive support, so any symlinks pointing to directories won't work. E.g. /etc/cron.d/c42-dump-fs is such a symlink. On

[Bug 712290] Re: set_train_data ValueError: Size mismatch. All items must be of the same size

2011-02-06 Thread Christian Kastner
I've committed a fix in the Debian package, I hope to upload soon and will then ask for an Ubuntu sync. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712290 Title: set_train_data ValueError: Size

[Bug 706565] Re: configs with dots in file name not working in /etc/cron.d

2011-01-24 Thread Christian Kastner
Addendum: I wasn't aware that Fedora implemented this differently -- although it is not surprising as /etc/cron.d/ not part of any official spec but rather an extension that was added by the individual distros. I have this issue noted for now; perhaps something can be done via log levels in

[Bug 706565] Re: configs with dots in file name not working in /etc/cron.d

2011-01-23 Thread Christian Kastner
This is, in fact, documented. See: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man8/cron.8.html Quoting (2nd paragraph): Additionally, cron reads the files in /etc/cron.d [...] Files must conform to the same naming convention as used by run-parts(8): they must consist solely of upper- and

[Bug 680024] Re: package cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing cron

2011-01-06 Thread Christian Kastner
OK, closing as Invalid then. This is not to dispute the bug, it's just to indicate that something went wrong during system upgrade in general. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 694220] Re: cron breaks dpkg-reconfigure -a

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
This has been reported and confirmed as a debconf issue in Debian, see: http://bugs.debian.org/560317 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #560317 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560317 ** Package changed: cron (Ubuntu) = debconf (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu)

[Bug 680024] Re: package cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing cron

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Sharad, are you still experiencing this problem? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680024 Title: package cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:

[Bug 692587] Re: Cannot update crontab PATH variable via PAM

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Kastner
ad PATH: This is by design, therefore it won't change. For example, by pulling in PATH from pam_env, the ability to specify different paths for different crontabs would be lost. I'm speaking as one of the Debian maintainers here - Ubuntu is of course free to add a patch on top of our version. I'd

[Bug 692587] Re: Cannot update crontab PATH variable via PAM

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Addendum (hit submit too fast) : by most versions', I meant not only the Debian/Ubuntu versions, but also those present in BSD, Red Hat, Suse etc. And the misdirected manpage (bcron) is the one in Lucid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 680024] Re: package cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing cron

2010-11-24 Thread Christian Kastner
Hm, everything should be fine. Have you tried updating again? Your initial report sounds like something was wrong during that upgrade, it might have been fixed again. The only way the pre-dependency error message makes sense to me is your system having had an older version of dpkg installed

[Bug 680024] Re: package cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing cron

2010-11-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Since version 3.0plq-114, cron Pre-Depends on dpkg (= 1.15.7.2). The version in 10.10 is 1.15.8.4, so I'm not sure why you are getting this error. Could you post the output of $ apt-cache policy dpkg here? -- package cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:

[Bug 33136] Re: undefined reference to `fann_create_standard'

2010-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
The example you mentioned requires libfann2 -- specifically, the libfann-dev package provided by it. That package is available in 10.10 (Maverick) and above. -- undefined reference to `fann_create_standard' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33136 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 54240] Re: New upstream version available

2010-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
libfann2 is available in Maverick and above. ** Changed in: libfann1 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- New upstream version available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/54240 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 261859] Re: fann development package missing data for examples

2010-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
libfann-dev (from libfann2) is now available in Maverick, and should be used instead. ** Changed in: libfann1 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- fann development package missing data for examples https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261859 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1674] Re: python bindings are not included from upstream

2010-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
I'm not that familiar with transitions in Ubuntu. Could somebody more experienced take a look at this? The python bindings are provided by libfann2 as package python-pyfann since Maverick, however this bug refers to libfann1. libfann1 has already been removed from Debian (and therefore won't get

[Bug 671839] [NEW] Sync request for pyrit

2010-11-06 Thread Christian Kastner
Public bug reported: Upstream and I would appreciate if you would sync pyrit. Source: pyrit Version: 3.0-2 Sync From: Debian sid main Side question: I was hoping for the package to be auto-synced (as other packages of mine were), but that was not the case. What could be the reason for this? **

[Bug 671839] Re: Sync request for pyrit

2010-11-06 Thread Christian Kastner
My bad - I misunderstood the functionality of Related software and packages, where I expected pyrit 0.3.0-2 to show up. That appears to be only the case for Debian packages where I am the Maintainer, not just amongst the Uploaders -- which is why I can't see cron in my package list as well.

[Bug 665912] Re: Fix for #151231 leaves tmpfile fd open in actual job

2010-10-25 Thread Christian Kastner
) Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Christian Kastner (ckk) -- Fix for #151231 leaves tmpfile fd open in actual job https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665912 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 665912] Re: Fix for #151231 leaves tmpfile fd open in actual job

2010-10-24 Thread Christian Kastner
(I added that patch, which was provided by Justin Pryzby, to cron) Strange. On my Debian Squeeze system with cron-115 (diff to -114 is only in packaging), I get the following results with the test case you provided: $ cat /tmp/stdout.log normal total 0 dr-x-- 2 chris chris 0 Oct 24 23:43 .

[Bug 658718] Re: dpkg-reconfigure fails on cron

2010-10-11 Thread Christian Kastner
This is actually a problem in debconf, see Debian bugs #596369 and #560317. -- dpkg-reconfigure fails on cron https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 27520] Re: cron no longer respects nsswitch.conf

2010-09-02 Thread Christian Kastner
This appears to be a variant of Debian bug #512757 against cron. Can somebody confirm this for me? -- cron no longer respects nsswitch.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27520 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

Re: [Bug 27520] Re: cron no longer respects nsswitch.conf

2010-09-02 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09/02/2010 05:09 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: This appears to be a variant of Debian bug #512757 against cron. Can somebody confirm this for me? [...] Pretty much, though for me reordering the init scripts wasn't enough as there was some delay between the time nslcd (the LDAP cache

[Bug 261859] Re: fann development package missing data for examples

2010-08-24 Thread Christian Kastner
Package libfann-dev (version 2.1.0beta) has the datasets. -- fann development package missing data for examples https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 1674] Re: python bindings are not included from upstream

2010-08-24 Thread Christian Kastner
The python bindings of libfann-2.1.0beta are available as package python-pyfann. -- python bindings are not included from upstream https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs