Subject: bin/3025: cron can't stat tab directory
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Tatoku Ogaito <tacha@tera.fukui-med.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/12/1996 10:27:58
>Number: 3025
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: cron can't stat tab directory
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 13 17:20:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tatoku Ogaito
>Organization:
----- : Tatoku Ogaito
/ _ _ _/ _ : Dept. Phys, Fukui Medical School
/ (_|(_ /)(_| : E-mail: tacha@tera.fukui-med.ac.jp
>Release: Current as of Dec. 10, 1996
>Environment:
System: NetBSD tera.fukui-med.ac.jp 1.2B NetBSD 1.2B (TERA) #34: Mon Dec 2 18:59:56 JST 1996 root@tera.fukui-med.ac.jp:/usr/current/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TERA i386
>Description:
daemon function with first argment equal to 0 makes
to change working directory to /, so cron can't read its spool directory.
>How-To-Repeat:
run cron and see /var/cron/log.
>Fix:
*** ./usr.sbin/cron/cron.c.orig Mon Dec 9 21:23:40 1996
--- ./usr.sbin/cron/cron.c Thu Dec 12 10:24:47 1996
***************
*** 91,97 ****
# endif
(void) fprintf(stderr, "[%d] cron started\n", getpid());
} else {
! if (daemon(0, 0)) {
log_it("CRON",getpid(),"DEATH","can't fork");
exit(1);
}
--- 91,97 ----
# endif
(void) fprintf(stderr, "[%d] cron started\n", getpid());
} else {
! if (daemon(1, 0)) {
log_it("CRON",getpid(),"DEATH","can't fork");
exit(1);
}
>Audit-Trail:
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