Bug 576225

Summary:	cron -s sends malformed/truncated output to syslog
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Will Woods <wwoods>
Component:	rsyslog	Assignee:	Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	mmaslano, pertusus, pvrabec, theinric, tmraz
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Description Will Woods 2010-03-23 15:02:37 UTC

When using the new '-s' (syslog) flag with cron from cronie-1.4.4, under certain (unknown) conditions it may send malformed output to stdout. 

This was originally reported in bug 548843:

"These patches looks ok, but there is still problem with 'echoing' text into
rsyslog. After every echo is print out incorrect text. This might be a problem
of utf-8 in rsyslog.

Jan  5 17:04:01 caladan crond[4268]: (marca) RELOAD (/var/spool/cron/marca)
Jan  5 17:04:01 caladan CROND[4373]: (marca) CMD (touch /tmp/somefile)
Jan  5 17:04:01 caladan CROND[4374]: (marca) CMD (echo test)
Jan  5 17:04:01 caladan CROND[4374]: t�    

Testing srpm: http://mmaslano.fedorapeople.org/test/cronie-1.4.3-3.fc13.src.rpm

rsyslog-4.4.2-3

Reproducer: start crond with -s option and create simple command e.g.
crontab -e
* * * * * echo sometext

The output will be cut as in previous post. This might be a problem of rsyslog,
which can't handle it. CC'ing maintainer of rsyslog."

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2010-08-02 11:56:23 UTC

It's still reproducible. If it's given CRONDARGS="-s" in /etc/sysconfig/crond and crontable contain for example
* * * * * echo "ěščřžýá"
it will give only ???? on output.

I suppose rsyslog can't work with utf-8 well. Re-assign, could you look at it?

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Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2011-06-03 07:12:39 UTC

It was probably wrong setting of language.