Bug 609544
| Summary: | Defining a job in crontab requires a username to be defined | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Martin Prpič <mprpic> |
| Component: | crontabs | Assignee: | Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | akrherz, azelinka, notting, ovasik, pkovar, psklenar, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Prior to this update, an example included in the /etc/crontab file contained an omission. It did not state that defining a job in crontab requires a username to be defined. The missing information has been added to the /etc/crontab file in this update.
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| Last Closed: | 2011-06-15 12:17:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Martin Prpič
2010-06-30 14:48:31 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. From the man page:
Jobs in /etc/cron.d/
The jobs in cron.d are system jobs, which are used usually for more than one
user. That’s the reason why is name of the user needed. MAILTO on the first
line is optional.
/etc/crontab is the same.
I suppose rewrite of man page in more comprehensible way couldn't hurt. Man-pages were rewritten in upstream, but this bug is in configuration file, which should be resolved in regular update. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative. There was request to fix example in /etc/crontab if I understand correctly to bug report. This configuration file is a part of crontabs, not cronie. Reassigning to correct component and cleaning flags. *** Bug 671380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 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-2011-0872.html
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Prior to this update, an example included in the /etc/crontab file contained an omission. It did not state that defining a job in crontab requires a username to be defined. The missing information has been added to the /etc/crontab file in this update.
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