Bug#818698: does not convert crontabs correctly

[Alexandre Detiste]

2016-03-21 12:54 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>
> > [Service]
> > Type=oneshot
> > IgnoreSIGPIPE=false
> > ExecStart=foo
>
> Is this the real output from systemd-cron?


No

>
> Then it should be fixed:
>
> 1. Exec* need their first argument to be a full path.
> 2. Exec* are not executed via a shell. IIRC, crontab lines can include
> shell constructs. Systemd-cron should generate units that use a shell
> (eg, /bin/sh -c 'foo').

If the job is a full path (eg /usr/local/bin/<something>)
it is started dirtectly without a shell; that also makes
the journal easier to read.

For all other cases; a one-line shell script is generated in /run.
Translating all possible shell escapes to systemd escapes
was too much pain/risk.

Thanks for caring.

Alexandre