Bug#419676: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#419676: aide's daily cron script fails with etch when using NOISE

[Marc Haber]

tags #419676 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:20:36PM +0200, Guillaume Lécroart wrote:
> Package: aide Version: 0.13.1

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dependencies.

> Aide's daily cron script fails with the following message :
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/aide:
> /etc/cron.daily/aide: line 229: /tmp/aidenpcAqTF: cannot overwrite existing
> file
> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/aide exited with return code 1
> 
> line 229 contains a redirection to a file creataed at line 227 using the
> 'tempfile' utility. Script sets bash's '-G' flag preventing overwriting an
> existing file.

Confirmed. Looks like nobody (including me) was actually using the
denoise feature. Good catch.

Please try the following patch against the cronjob of aide 0.13.1-5.

--- /etc/cron.daily/aide.orig   2007-04-17 14:12:18.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/cron.daily/aide        2007-04-17 14:13:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -277,14 +277,14 @@
     if [ -n "${ARUNLOG:-}" ] && [ -s "$ARUNLOG" ]; then

       if [ -n "${NOISE:-}" ]; then
-       NOISETMP="$(tempfile --directory "/tmp" --prefix "aidenoise")"
-       NOISETMP2="$(tempfile --directory "/tmp" --prefix "aidenoise")"
+       NOISETMP="$(mytempfile aidenoise1)"
+       NOISETMP2="$(mytempfile aidenoise2)"
        < "$ARUNLOG" sed -n '1,/^Detailed information about changes:/p' | \
        grep '^\(changed\|removed\|added\):' | \
-       grep -v "^added: THERE WERE ALSO [0-9]\+ FILES ADDED UNDER THIS DIRECTORY" > "$NOISETMP2"
+       grep -v "^added: THERE WERE ALSO [0-9]\+ FILES ADDED UNDER THIS DIRECTORY" >> "$NOISETMP2"

        if [ -n "$NOISE" ]; then
-               < "$NOISETMP2" grep -v "^\(changed\|removed\|added\):$NOISE" > "$NOISETMP"
+               < "$NOISETMP2" grep -v "^\(changed\|removed\|added\):$NOISE" >> "$NOISETMP"
                printf >> "$MAILFILE" "De-Noised output removes everything matching %s.\n" "$NOISE"
        fi


Greetings
Marc

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