Summary: | sys-process/dcron - hanging jobs cause crontab updates to be ignored | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alex Efros <powerman-asdf> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | cron-bugs+disabled, jer |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Alex Efros
2013-04-07 15:05:14 UTC
(In reply to Alex Efros from comment #0) > When process started by dcron doesn't exit or fork in background dcron will > wait until it exit and until that happens it doesn't check for crontab > updates (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/cron.update). > > This is security issue because any user may add this to his crontab: > * * * * * sleep 86400 Not _any_ user. It would be a security issue if you trusted all users to set a crontab, but we already have the cron group for that. This is an upstream issue I think http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/dcron.html |