incrontab changes event name, path etc

[Alexandr Leutin]

When I try to edit incrontab file with incrontab command, it replaces special symbols, which represents event path, name etc ($%, $@ etc) by '0'.
It not depends on the used editor (I have tried with nano, vim and mcedit).
For example:

root@s:~# cat incrontab.user | grep echo
/home/user IN_ALL_EVENTS /bin/echo %$ >> /tmp/incron.user
root@s:~# incrontab -uuser incrontab.user
copying table from file 'incrontab.technostockcom'
root@s:~# incrontab -l -uuser | grep echo
/home/user IN_ALL_EVENTS /bin/echo 0 >> /tmp/incron.user
root@s:~#

[Alexandr Leutin (leutin)]

s ~ $lsb_release -a [13:59:19]0
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
s ~ $uname -a [13:59:21]0
Linux s.micelon.ru 3.1.0-1.2-xen #5 SMP Mon Mar 5 14:10:54 MSK 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
s ~ $dpkg -l incron [13:59:28]0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii incron 0.5.9-5 cron-like daemon which handles filesystem events
s ~ $

[Andreas Altaïr Redmer (altair-ibn-la-ahad)]

This works now fine in version 0.5.10 .

If you want to reproduce it from the original Bug description, you have to take care to use 'echo $%' instead of 'echo %$' .

[Tamás Baráth (tamas-barath)]

Actually this is not working fine. I think the problem is in the incron itself, not in the package.
In the actual version the fields _must_ be separated with only space(s), and there must be a mask after the first space.

Easy to reproduce, just try to add one line to the end and check the result:
$ incrontab -e && tail -n 1 /var/spool/incron/whatever

1. /srv/ IN_ACCESS echo "1"
with spaces, this OK

2. #/srv/ IN_ACCESS echo "1"
with spaces and with a hashmark in the first character, seems OK but in the log:
access denied on # - events will be discarded silently

2. # /srv/ IN_ACCESS echo "1"
the last line but add a space after the hashmark, the result will be:
# 0 IN_ACCESS echo "1"

3. try to add the line in point 1, but use tabs as delimiter instead of spaces:
/srv/<tab>IN_ACCESS<tab>echo "1"
The line will simply disappear.

And so on.
So use only space(s) for delimiter, and if you comment out lines do it without space.

$ apt-cache show incron | grep Ver
Version: 0.5.10-1ubuntu1