Bug 170794

Summary:	cron misinterprets escaped percent signs
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Component:	vixie-cron	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	benl
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005:0117	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	110189
Bug Blocks:	161600

Description Jason Vas Dias 2005-10-14 15:57:04 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #110189 +++

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Gecko/20031030

Description of problem:
cron seems to be misinterpreting backslash-escaped percent sign
characters in commands.  Normally, cron will replace a percent sign in
a command string with a newline.  While preceeding the percent sign
with a backslash prevents this replacement, it leaves the backslash.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-3.0.1-76

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a crontab entry such as: 
@reboot date "+Rebooted at \%c" | mail -s reboot root
2. Reboot
3.
    

Actual Results:  root gets email saying:
Rebooted at \Sun Nov 16 13:59:47 2003


Expected Results:  root should get email saying:
Rebooted at Sun Nov 16 13:59:47 2003


Additional info:

-- Additional comment from jvdias on 2004-08-04 18:56 EST --
fixed in vixie-cron-4.1-+

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-10-14 15:58:03 UTC

This bug is fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-8_EL3, available from:
  http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/cron/RHEL-3
and should be considered for inclusion in RHEL-3-U7 .

Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2006-05-01 17:53:01 UTC

Fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3, currently in RHEL-3-U7 with errata
RHSA-2005:0117.