Bug 280261 – sys-process/cronbase: run-crons attempts to execute non-executable files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Dmitri Bogomolov 2009-08-04 06:26:14 UTC]

After upgrading from sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2-r1 I receive mail with message "/usr/sbin/run-crons: line 102: /etc/cron.hourly/.keep_sys-process_cronbase-0: Permission denied"

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Dmitri Bogomolov 2009-08-04 06:26:58 UTC]

Created attachment 200111 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Dmitri Bogomolov 2011-08-18 10:08:59 UTC]

The problem is in GLOBIGNORE="*~" `man bash' says:

  However, setting GLOBIGNORE to a non-null  value has  the effect of enabling
  the dotglob shell option, so all other file names beginning with a ``.''
  will match. To get the old behavior of ignoring file names  beginning  with
  a  ``.'', make  ``.*''   one of the patterns in GLOBIGNORE.

But GLOBIGNORE="*~:.*" has ho effect for me.

[Comment 3 Dmitri Bogomolov 2012-03-13 10:25:50 UTC]

This bug is because of patch from bug 237200.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2015-07-21 10:37:35 UTC]

this was fixed with at least the 0.3.3 release:
    if [[ -x $SCRIPT && ! -d $SCRIPT ]]; then
        $SCRIPT
    fi

and testing locally i see run-crons skipping it:
# bash -x run-crons
...
+ for SCRIPT in '$CRONDIR/*'
+ [[ -x /etc/cron.weekly/.keep ]]
+ for SCRIPT in '$CRONDIR/*'
...

if this is still an issue, please post the output of:
 ls -al /etc/cron.hourly/