+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #110189 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) 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-+
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 .
Fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3, currently in RHEL-3-U7 with errata RHSA-2005:0117.