From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The result of crond not explicitly opening file descriptor 0, is that the cronjobs inherit a closed fd 0 (stdin), which tends to be an issue in some cases. eg. anacron invoked from /etc/cron.daily/0anacron fails with error anacron: Can't close stdin: Bad file descriptor This issue is same as in bug #145992 reported and fixed against RHEL 3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vixie-cron-3.0.1-63.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Same as in BZ #145992 Additional info:
The patch provided in #145992 (just to address this issue) works fine here.
I don't think this bug warrants an errata update for RHEL-2.1 . Should customers require that this bug (and MANY others) be fixed, they should install vixie-cron-4.1-2_EL2, available from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/vixie-cron/RHEL-2.1/ This is on a CVS branch tag (not the head release) and is built in dist-2.1-scratch .
It should work in vixie-cron-4.1-2_EL2. It's inactive one year, so I close it.