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Bug 1794653 - /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd gives error sleep: missing operand
Summary: /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd gives error sleep: missing operand
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 8.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: candlepin-bugs
QA Contact: Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team
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Blocks: 1803794
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-01-24 09:07 UTC by Michael Young
Modified: 2023-09-07 21:35 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: subscription-manager-1.26.11-1
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Clone Of:
: 1803794 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:54:53 UTC
Type: Bug
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Github candlepin subscription-manager pull 2218 0 None closed 1794653: corrected missing quotes for config check; ENT-2010 2020-09-22 05:08:16 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-37456 0 None None None 2023-02-12 20:46:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:1849 0 None None None 2020-04-28 16:55:13 UTC

Description Michael Young 2020-01-24 09:07:19 UTC 
I am getting an error from the /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd cron job in subscription-manager-1.26.9-1.el8.x86_64 on RHEL 8.2 beta. The error message is

/etc/cron.daily/rhsmd:

sleep: missing operand
Try 'sleep --help' for more information.
/etc/cron.daily/rhsmd: line 19:  8215 Terminated
/usr/libexec/rhsmd -s

I believe this is because I don't have a processTimeout line in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf so $config from line 5 is the empty string
However the if clause starting at line 6 is 
if [ -n $config ]; then
  rhsmd_timeout=$config
else
  rhsmd_timeout=300
fi

so line 6 test is now
if [ -n ]; then
which is true so rhsmd_timeout is set to the empty string
I think line 6 should be
if [ -n "$config" ]; then
so the line 6 would be
if [ -n "" ]; then
which is false so rhsmd_timeout gets set to 300 as intended
Comment 4 Shwetha Kallesh 2020-03-12 12:35:43 UTC 
Reproducer :

[root@kvm-guest-02 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: 2.9.21-1
subscription management rules: 5.37
subscription-manager: 1.26.9-1.el8


[root@kvm-guest-02 ~]# run-parts /etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/rhsmd:

sleep: missing operand
Try 'sleep --help' for more information.
/etc/cron.daily/rhsmd: line 19:  5007 Terminated              /usr/libexec/rhsmd -s
[root@kvm-guest-02 ~]# cat /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf | grep process
# The time in seconds we will allow the rhsmd cron job to run before terminating the process.
Comment 5 Shwetha Kallesh 2020-03-12 12:37:34 UTC 
Verification:

[root@kvm-08-guest19 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: 2.9.21-1
subscription management rules: 5.37
subscription-manager: 1.26.14-1.el8


[root@kvm-08-guest19 ~]# cat /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf | grep process
# The time in seconds we will allow the rhsmd cron job to run before terminating the process.

[root@kvm-08-guest19 ~]# run-parts /etc/cron.daily
[root@kvm-08-guest19 ~]#
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:54:53 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1849
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