Bug#1041911: fails to parse regular entries

Yuri D'Elia wavexx at thregr.org
Tue Jul 25 09:47:56 BST 2023


Package: systemd-cron
Version: 1.16.1-1
Severity: important

Unfortunately 1.16.1 doesn't accept my existing crontab, failing on the
already on first line:

crontab: unknown schedule in /tmp/crontab_o81kjgn_: */5 * * * * fetch-mail

It seems that any entry with a '*' gets rejected

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd-cron depends on:
ii  cron-daemon-common          3.0pl1-162
ii  libc6                       2.37-6
ii  python3                     3.11.4-5
ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]  254~rc3-3
ii  systemd-sysv                254~rc3-3

systemd-cron recommends no packages.

Versions of packages systemd-cron suggests:
ii  dma [mail-transport-agent]  0.13-1+b1



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