| Summary: | periodic(8) /absolute/path/where/basename/contains-hyphens interpreted as options to mail(1) | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | danielsh |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Open --- | ||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | 0mp, emaste, yzhong |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | CURRENT | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
I ran «periodic /usr/local/etc/periodic/one-off» from /etc/crontab and got the following output: [[[ Subject: Cron <root@zsh> periodic /usr/local/etc/periodic/one-off mail: illegal option -- o Usage: mail [-dEiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] [-F] to-addr ... [-sendmail-option ...] mail [-dEHiInNv] [-F] -f [name] mail [-dEHiInNv] [-F] [-u user] mail [-d] -e [-f name] ]]] What happens: The function output_pipe() is called with a first argument of «/usr/local/etc/periodic/one-off», which then runs «eval» on the string «output=$one-off_output», which sets the variable $output to the value «-off_output» (because $one expands to nothing), and that variable is then used to build the mail command in $pipe, which works out to «mail -E -s '…' -off_output», which produces the above output. Reproduced in 11.2R, but by source inspection applies to CURRENT too.