Dave Vehrs email (was : Re: Problem with Debian Sqeeze)

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On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:32 +0100, Lukas Jelinek wrote:
> It seems to be a misinterpretation, not a bug. As you can see in the
> log file the 'ls' command is executed correctly. I checked it now (on
> a brand new installation of Debian Squeeze) and there is no problem.
> What you expect your example should do? If the 'ls' command was
> executed the way you specified it wrote the directory listing out
> silently (the current version of incron passes everything
> to /dev/null). Try to create a shell script (eg. /usr/local/bin/ls)
> doing something like 'ls > /tmp/lsout' and use it instead of 'ls' (the
> incron rule would be '/root IN_CREATE /usr/local/bin/ls'). Then try to
> repeat your test and check the content of /tmp/lsout. If your problem
> persists please describe more precisely what you expect and how it
> actually works. Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Lukas
> 
> > Debian Sqeeze
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Installation from repository with apt-get install incron.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > incrontab -l
> > 
> > /root IN_CREATE ls
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > touch /root/test
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Extract from syslog:
> > 
> > Jan 26 09:23:55 ns5 incrond[17504]: starting service (version 0.5.9,
> > built on Jan 31 2010 23:16:22)
> > 
> > Jan 26 09:23:55 ns5 incrond[17505]: loading system tables
> > 
> > Jan 26 09:23:55 ns5 incrond[17505]: loading user tables
> > 
> > Jan 26 09:23:55 ns5 incrond[17505]: ready to process filesystem
> > events
> > 
> > Jan 26 09:26:19 ns5 incrond[17505]: table for user root created,
> > loading
> > 
> > Jan 26 09:26:57 ns5 incrond[17505]: (root) CMD (ls)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The ‘ls’ command in the example above is not executed. Other
> > commands or program calls tested are  not executed too. 
> > 
> > We also tested incrontab without success for normal users. It seems
> > it’s not working at all.
> > 
> > The same behavior was observed in two different machines with Debian
> > Sqeeze installed.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is this a Debian Squeeze bug or did we miss some configuration?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
>