[Popcon-developers] Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)
Klaus Ethgen
Klaus at Ethgen.de
Sun Jun 17 20:32:25 UTC 2007
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.41
Severity: important
Long time now I got the following line every week:
Jun 17 22:06:07 ikki popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.
I was wondering why I get this message as everything with this site was
OK. Now I search a bit further and found the bug.
Appear of that the error message is completely useless if the error
occurs if the report is empty there is a wrong usage of 'su' in
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest. As you can see from 'getent passwd
nobody':
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/false
my System has no useful shell for user nobody (as it should ever be by
the way). So su will ever fail if it is not called with '-s'. You will
find a little patch for the file above in the attachment.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (60, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.34
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p
ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.63-17 exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii mime-construct 1.9 construct/send MIME messages from
-- debconf information:
popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
--
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