[Pkg-mlmmj-devel] Bug#804436: mlmmj: installs incorrectly formatted job to /etc/crontab when creating a list

[Phil Reynolds]

Package: mlmmj
Version: 1.2.18.1-1+b1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,

I recently moved all of my email setup to a new machine. I installed mlmmj,
and when I created a list, it added the following /line to /etc/crontab:

0 */2 * * * "/usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F -L /var/spool/mlmmj/tvcadmin/"

This led to another job failing to run - its crontab entry is:

1 0	* * *	root	/usr/local/bin/simplebackup

The mlmmj-maintd job ran, but the simplebackup job was never started. As for
the other jobs listed, I am unsure whether they ran or not.

When I amended the mlmmj-maintd job thus, the problem was resolved:

0 */2	* * *	root	/usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F -L /var/spool/mlmmj/tvcadmin/

The problem appears to be that mlmmj creates the crontab entry without
specifying the user name. It should either specify the user name or put the
entry in the user's crontab.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mlmmj depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                      1.5.56
ii  exim4                                      4.84-8
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-transport-agent]  4.84-8
ii  libc6                                      2.19-18+deb8u1

mlmmj recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mlmmj suggests:
pn  mlmmj-php-web        <none>
pn  mlmmj-php-web-admin  <none>

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