[Popcon-developers] Bug#670421: popularity-contest: prints "...terminated." under systemd

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 07:41:26PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Timo Juhani Lindfors (timo.lindfors at iki.fi):
> 
> > Actual results:
> > 3) /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest prints " ...terimnated.":
> 
> That string looks like a string that has been added to su (from source
> package shadow) recently:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670132

Interesting because /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest does:

        su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/popularity-contest" nobody

just before calling setsid. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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