Bug 429850

Summary:	crontab error with @reboot entry
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	jddceo <34supportserver>
Component:	vixie-cron	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	4.6	CC:	love03music05
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description jddceo 2008-01-23 14:06:25 UTC

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Description of problem:
Hi there,

we have a lot of RH ES servers version 3 and 4, each are up2date.
On several machines we use the option @reboot. If we need to make a /etc/init.d/cron restart, all entries with the @reboot wil be executed.

Kind regards

Alexander

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ISC Cron V4.1

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.crontab -e
2.@reboot /bin/date >/root/boottime
3./etc/init.d/cron restart
4.ls -la /root/boottime


Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-01-23 16:28:27 UTC

Well, there are two possibilities how to use @reboot macro. In our cron is
reboot for start the job after reboot of computer, not after restart of the
daemon. For the feature is needed new macro f.e. @restart.
Please open an issue tracker for fix in RHEL-3|4. I'll be working on this
feature in upstream.

Comment 2 jddceo 2008-01-24 08:11:15 UTC

Sorry, but you are wrong, @reboot is the same like @restart, I only have @reboot
in my crontab and they are executed each time I restart the daemon.

Kind regards

Alexander

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-01-24 08:34:12 UTC

Ok, from your first comment wasn't clear what's the behavior now.

Comment 4 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-01-28 09:13:24 UTC

Correct component is vixie-cron.

Comment 5 jddceo 2008-01-28 09:34:34 UTC

yes, it is. I don't know if there is another one?

I don't know how to understand your message.

Comment 6 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-01-28 09:43:23 UTC

I changed bug on correct component. It was reported on crontabs, which is false.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2009-02-04 12:17:27 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0025.html