cron needs to re-lookup users when trying to run a job

[Matthias Andree]

Binary package hint: cron

Please backport the fix for LP: #27520 to all supported releases. It breaks, among others, on lucid.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cron 3.0pl1-106ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-32.62-generic 2.6.32.38+drm33.16
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-32-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 7 18:32:53 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cron

[Christian Kastner (ckk)]

On 06/07/2011 06:34 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Please backport the fix for LP: #27520 to all supported releases. It
> breaks, among others, on lucid.

There's a problem here: #27520 was never fixed. As it turned out, there
was a misunderstanding: the LSB init script headers (where the problem
was fixed in Debian) aren't considered in Ubuntu as there is an upstart
config present. I'd change the status, but I can't.

[Christian Kastner (ckk)]

cron 3.0pl1-119, recently uploaded to Debian unstable, contains a patch that forces a rescan of ORPHANed crontabs. Credit for the fix goes to Fedora cronie, from where it was taken.

I'll try to get this sync'ed over the weekend, together with some other bugfixes for cron in Ubuntu.