Re: [webmin-devel] [Webmin] Webalizer hangs

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:34, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> 
> >> I will send you other details via feedback if necessary ...
> >
> >What happens if you run  crontab -e  at some user and add a cron job 
> >like :
> >
> >@hourly	ls -l >/dev/null
> >
> >Does it accept the cron job, or complain that the new line is not valid?
> 
> ######################################################################
> 
> Test as "macmewes":
> 
> $ crontab -e
> @hourly	ls -l >/dev/null
> 
> File /tmp/crontab.3500 saved.
> crontab: installing new crontab
> 
> $ crontab -l
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3500 installed on Thu Sep 25 09:28:56 2003)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
> $)
> @hourly ls -l >/dev/null
> 
> ######################################################################
> 
> Test as "root" for "macmewes" which webmin would do ..
> 
> # crontab -u macmewes -e
> @hourly	ls -l >/dev/null
> 
> File /tmp/crontab.3670 saved.
> crontab: installing new crontab
> 
> # crontab -u macmewes -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3670 installed on Thu Sep 25 09:32:08 2003)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
> $)
> @hourly ls -l >/dev/null
> 
> ######################################################################
> 

After doing some more testing, I have found the cause of this problem -
it is not in the Cron module itself (as I first thought), but in the way
the Webalizer module interfaces with it. Updates to fix the problem have
been posted at http://www.webmin.com/updates.html .

Thanks for pointing this out!

 - Jamie