Bug 203235 - cron doesn't honour MAXLOGNAME
Summary: cron doesn't honour MAXLOGNAME
Status: Closed DUPLICATE of bug 212305
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 10.2-STABLE
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
URL:
Keywords: patch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-09-21 16:19 UTC by Charles Lecklider
Modified: 2016-12-20 21:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2015-09-21 16:25 UTC, Charles Lecklider 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Charles Lecklider 2015-09-21 16:19:46 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Charles Lecklider

        

        
        

        
          2015-09-21 16:25:00 UTC
        

      






Created attachment 161233 [details]
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          Comment 2
        

        
          Charles Lecklider

        

        
        

        
          2015-09-21 16:38:04 UTC
        

      






It appears that cron has always had its own idea of how long a username can be, it's just been exposed by [r243023].

crontab truncates the tab filename to the first 19 characters and cron complains about orphans.

The fix is trivial.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Baptiste Daroussin

        

        
            freebsd_committer
            freebsd_triage
        

        
          2016-12-10 12:55:52 UTC
        

      






Has been fixed in r305269

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Ed Maste

        

        
            freebsd_committer
            freebsd_triage
        

        
          2016-12-20 21:37:49 UTC
        

      






I'm sorry that we missed your PR and patch. Marking as a duplicate of the PR referenced in the commit.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 212305 ***