Bug 237200 – sys-process/cronbase: Proposed Patch to prevent emacs backup files from running in /etc/cron.* folders

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Steven Green 2008-09-09 16:52:28 UTC]

When you edit a file with emacs the default behaviour is to make a backup file of the same name but with a tilda on the end, eg. myfile~

I have frquently been caught out after editing a file in /etc/cron.daily and then find that the old backup is run as well as the newly edited one.

A simple fix is to add:
GLOBIGNORE="*~" in /usr/sbin/run-crons.


--- /usr/portage/sys-process/cronbase/files/run-crons-0.3.2     2007-06-24 21:40:42.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/run-crons 2008-09-09 17:12:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
                touch ${LOCKDIR}/cron.$BASE

                set +e
+               GLOBIGNORE="*~"
                for SCRIPT in $CRONDIR/* ; do
                        if [[ -x $SCRIPT && ! -d $SCRIPT ]]; then
                                $SCRIPT



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Steven Green 2008-09-09 16:57:58 UTC]

Created attachment 165038 [details, diff]
Patch to ignore emacs backup files from being run by cron

[Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-09-09 20:08:37 UTC]

Thanks for the patch, assigning to maintainers.

[Comment 3 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2008-10-08 10:03:36 UTC]

this looks so trivial, i am inclined to include it.
cron-bugs: objections?

[Comment 4 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2009-04-14 06:15:17 UTC]

included in cronbase-0.3.3.
thanks...

[Comment 5 Dmitri Bogomolov 2011-08-18 10:14:36 UTC]

This patch introduced bug 280261.