Bug 105616
| Summary: | cron doesn't run properly | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ian Macdonald <ian> |
| Component: | vixie-cron | Assignee: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | vixie-cron-4.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-08-04 23:31:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 170803 | ||
fixed in old vixie-cron-3.? and in latest vixie-cron-4.1-+. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Description of problem: There are problems with cron not running jobs and/or not mailing the output to the user. If the program only has a little output, it is not mailed. In other circumstances, the job does not run at all unless one attaches to the process with strace. Using nss_ldap seems to exacerbate these issues, but the problem is intermittent and extremely hard to reproduce in the same way each time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. define a cron job 'echo this is a test' 2. 3. Actual Results: output not mailed to user Expected Results: output should have been mailed Additional info: Here's a patch that fixes the issue: diff -uNr vixie-cron-3.0.1.orig/do_command.c vixie-cron-3.0.1/do_command.c --- vixie-cron-3.0.1.orig/do_command.c 2003-09-25 10:57:03.000000000 -0700 +++ vixie-cron-3.0.1/do_command.c 2003-09-25 10:57:37.000000000 -0700 @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ /* fork again, this time so we can exec the user's command. */ - switch (vfork()) { + switch (fork()) { case -1: log_it("CRON",getpid(),"error","can't vfork"); exit(ERROR_EXIT); diff -uNr vixie-cron-3.0.1.orig/popen.c vixie-cron-3.0.1/popen.c --- vixie-cron-3.0.1.orig/popen.c 2003-09-25 10:57:02.000000000 -0700 +++ vixie-cron-3.0.1/popen.c 2003-09-25 10:57:53.000000000 -0700 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ #endif iop = NULL; - switch(pid = vfork()) { + switch(pid = fork()) { case -1: /* error */ (void)close(pdes[0]); (void)close(pdes[1]);