Subject: misc/8372: new /etc/daily does not like old root crontab
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/10/1999 20:54:52
>Number: 8372
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: new /etc/daily does not like old root crontab
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 10 20:50:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: matthew green
>Organization:
people's front against (bozotic) www (softwar foundation)
>Release: <NetBSD-current source date>
>Environment:
System: NetBSD madrugada.eterna.com.au 1.4K NetBSD 1.4K (_madrugada_) #15: Tue Sep 7 14:44:13 EST 1999 mrg@madrugada.eterna.com.au:/var/_madrugada_ alpha
>Description:
the changes made to /etc/daily & co, and the root crontab are
incompatible with previous versions of these. eg, a new crontab
with an old /etc/daily will fail as there is no to: or cc:
addresses passed to "sendmail -t". this change was made by
lukem nearly a year ago:
revision 1.14
date: 1998/09/15 05:06:30; author: lukem; state: Exp; lines: +4 -4
the end-result of this is that the mail bounces as there is
no one to deliver it to.
>How-To-Repeat:
install a new machine.
copy all your standard changed files to machine, not realising
that /etc/daily & co are now incompatible.
lose.
>Fix:
not sure. why pass To: in the /etc/daily rather than the
cronjob? i actually don't see any reason that change was made
but i'm sure luke will :-)
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: