I cannot get jobs to run via fcron's /etc/crontab, because it appears to be truncating the lines. The lines are very long as they include command-line parameters for record-v4l2.pl, a script included with the media-tv/ivtv driver to record video to files. Here's a couple example lines I have in my crontab: 0 12 2 10 0 root record-v4l2.pl --input /dev/v4l/video 0 --directory /mnt/video --directory-format "" --output klegp_000519.mpg --duration 1590 --inputnum 5 --bitrate 6000000 --peakbitrate 8000000 --output-settings 0 30 12 2 10 0 root record-v4l2.pl --input /dev/v4l/video 0 --directory /mnt/video --directory-format "" --output kcomm_003148.mpg --duration 1590 --inputnum 5 --bitrate 6000000 --peakbitrate 8000000 --output-settings 0 I have each of those on one line, no wrapping. Whenever I try to use a "/" character to wrap each of those on multiple lines, it makes NO difference. Here is what I get in my /var/log/message: Oct 2 12:00:00 ketenc fcron[13856]: Job record-v4l2.pl --input /dev/v4l/video 0 --directory /mnt/video --directory-format "" --output klegp_000519.mpg --duration 1590 --inputnum 5 --bitrate 6000000 (truncated) Oct 2 12:00:00 ketenc fcron[13856]: Job record-v4l2.pl --input /dev/v4l/video 0 --directory /mnt/video --directory-format "" --output klegp_000519.mpg --duration 1590 --inputnum 5 --bitrate 6000000 (truncated) Oct 2 12:30:00 ketenc fcron[14063]: Job record-v4l2.pl --input /dev/v4l/video 0 --directory /mnt/video --directory-format "" --output kcomm_003148.mpg --duration 1590 --inputnum 5 --bitrate 6000000 (truncated) Oct 2 12:30:00 ketenc fcron[14063]: Job record-v4l2.pl --input /dev/v4l/video 0 --directory /mnt/video --directory-format "" --output kcomm_003148.mpg --duration 1590 --inputnum 5 --bitrate 6000000 (truncated) I have tried 3.0.0-r1, 3.0.0, and 2.0.2. This is very odd, because I've been using fcron successfully for some time though I don't know what version. I recently did an "emerge world -u", and now I'm being stymied by fcron. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add long lines to /etc/crontab 2. time comes for job to execute 3. job fails to run because the line is truncated
Correction, I used a backslash to wrap the jobs on multiple lines.
3.0.0-r1? As for the log messages, the "(truncated)" just means the log message was truncated: In log.c: static char truncated[] = " (truncated)"; ... if (len >= MAX_MSG) strcpy(msg + (MAX_MSG - 1) - sizeof(truncated), truncated);
Whoops, you're right about the log messages themselves being truncated. As for -r1, I created a custom ebuild in my overlay that allows fcron to be built without dependencies on ssmtp and mailbase; I detest mail servers. Not sure why it wasn't working before, but it's working again. record-v4l2.pl doesn't like it when the bitrate and peakbitrate are the same; I discovered this today while nosing around, and my jobs are running via cron again. So I'm happy. I'll close this bug. Sorry to trouble everyone over it.
