Debian Bug report logs - #447040
/usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob should be silent

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kiko Piris <menorqui@pirispons.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob should be silent

Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:47:50 +0200

Package: amavisd-new
Version: 1:2.5.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


When `/usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync' is executed (from
`/etc/cron.d/amavisd-new'), it’s output gets mailed everytime to root.

Below is a patch (adapted from sarge's script to make it silent.

---8<---
--- /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob~      2007-10-15 14:21:47.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob       2007-10-17 18:41:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@

 case $1 in
        sa-sync)
-               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync >/dev/null"
+               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync" '>/dev/null'
                ;;
        sa-clean)
-               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync --force-expire >/dev/null"
+               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync --force-expire" '>/dev/null'
                ;;
        *)
                echo "$0: unknown cron routine $1" >&2
--->8---

Cheers.

-- 
Kiko



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages amavisd-new depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.14     Debian configuration management sy
ii  file                          4.21-3     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  libarchive-tar-perl           1.36-1     Archive::Tar - manipulate tar file
ii  libarchive-zip-perl           1.18-1     Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii  libberkeleydb-perl            0.31-1     use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         2.007-1    Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libconvert-tnef-perl          0.17-5     Perl module to read TNEF files
ii  libconvert-uulib-perl         1.09-1     Perl interface to the uulib librar
pn  libdigest-md5-perl            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libio-stringy-perl            2.110-2    Perl5 modules for IO from scalars 
ii  libmailtools-perl             1.77-1     Manipulate email in perl programs
pn  libmime-base64-perl           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libmime-perl                  5.420-2    Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libnet-server-perl            0.94-1     An extensible, general perl server
ii  libunix-syslog-perl           1.0-1      Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(
ii  perl [libtime-hires-perl]     5.8.8-11   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

amavisd-new recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  amavisd-new/outdated_config_style_warning:

Message #12 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>

To: Kiko Piris <menorqui@pirispons.net>, 447040@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#447040: /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob should be silent

Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:19:54 -0200

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Kiko Piris wrote:
> When `/usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync' is executed (from
> `/etc/cron.d/amavisd-new'), it???s output gets mailed everytime to root.
> 
> Below is a patch (adapted from sarge's script to make it silent.
> 
> ---8<---
> --- /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob~      2007-10-15 14:21:47.000000000 +0200
> +++ /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob       2007-10-17 18:41:22.000000000 +0200
> @@ -29,10 +29,10 @@
> 
>  case $1 in
>         sa-sync)
> -               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync >/dev/null"
> +               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync" '>/dev/null'
>                 ;;
>         sa-clean)
> -               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync --force-expire >/dev/null"
> +               do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync --force-expire" '>/dev/null'
>                 ;;
>         *)
>                 echo "$0: unknown cron routine $1" >&2
> --->8---
> 
> Cheers.

Watch out, it might not work well depending on what do_amavis_cmd has to
run.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

Message #17 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kiko Piris <menorqui@pirispons.net>

To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>

Cc: 447040@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#447040: /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob should be silent

Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:24:36 +0200

On 17/10/2007 at 15:19 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Watch out, it might not work well depending on what do_amavis_cmd has to
> run.

And now that the job has run again, I’ve realized that the patch is
incorrect :-[

-- 
Kiko
Private mail is preferred encrypted:
http://www.pirispons.net/pgpkey.html

Message #24 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: dAniel hAhler <debian-bugs@thequod.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <447040@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: amavisd-new: Patch for bug 447040

Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:57:39 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Package: amavisd-new
Version: 1:2.5.2-2
Tags: patch
Followup-For: Bug #447040
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy ubuntu-patch



*** /tmp/tmpyC5y_k
In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:

  * debian/amavisd-new-cronjob:
    - fix output redirect to /dev/null, if the script is being called
      by SUUSER
    - Also redirect STDERR to /dev/null, because sa-learn complains
      there that it is disabled (LP: #165184)

We thought you might be interested in doing the same. 

[tmpPi-HWw (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #29 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>

To: 447040@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Patch not applied in Ubuntu

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:50:52 -0500

The patch mentioned above has not, in fact, been applied in Ubuntu.

Message #34 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manolo Díaz <damdl@pleione.es>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <447040@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: I'm affraid that cron daily can't do its job

Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:52:15 +0200

Package: amavisd-new
Version: 1:2.6.1.dfsg-1
Followup-For: Bug #447040

Hi,

amavis user is created without permission to use a shell. This prevents
	su - amavis -c 'whatever you do'
to work, so /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob won't work launched as root.

As possible workaround you could move /etc/cron.daily/amavisd-new to
/etc/cron.d/foo and configure it to use amavis as user. This is the
reason why cron job works for sa-sync.


Best Regards,
Manolo Díaz


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages amavisd-new depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  file                          4.25-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  libarchive-zip-perl           1.18-1     Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii  libberkeleydb-perl            0.34-1+b1  use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         2.012-1    Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libconvert-tnef-perl          0.17-8     Perl module to read TNEF files
ii  libconvert-uulib-perl         1.11-1     Perl interface to the uulib librar
pn  libdigest-md5-perl            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libio-stringy-perl            2.110-4    Perl modules for IO from scalars a
ii  libmailtools-perl             2.03-1     Manipulate email in perl programs
pn  libmime-base64-perl           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libmime-tools-perl            5.427-1    Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libnet-server-perl            0.97-1     An extensible, general perl server
ii  libunix-syslog-perl           1.1-2      Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(
ii  perl [libtime-hires-perl]     5.10.0-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libarchive-tar- 5.10.0-13  Core Perl modules

amavisd-new recommends no packages.

Versions of packages amavisd-new suggests:
pn  apt-listchanges          <none>          (no description available)
ii  arj                      3.10.22-6       archiver for .arj files
ii  cabextract               1.2-3           a program to extract Microsoft Cab
pn  clamav                   <none>          (no description available)
ii  clamav-daemon            0.93.1.dfsg-1.1 anti-virus utility for Unix - scan
ii  cpio                     2.9-13          GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
pn  dspam                    <none>          (no description available)
pn  lha                      <none>          (no description available)
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl      2.12-1          Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii  libdbi-perl              1.605-1         Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
pn  libmail-dkim-perl        <none>          (no description available)
pn  libnet-ldap-perl         <none>          (no description available)
ii  lzop                     1.02~rc1-2      fast compression program
pn  nomarch                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  spamassassin             3.2.5-1         Perl-based spam filter using text 
ii  unrar                    1:3.8.2-1       Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre
pn  zoo                      <none>          (no description available)

-- debconf-show failed

Message #39 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

To: 447040@bugs.debian.org

Subject: cronjob still not silent

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:04:40 +0200

Version: 1:2.6.1.dfsg-1

Hi,
the amavis cron.d job is still spewing out messages:

Subject: Cron <amavis@honk> test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync

bayes: synced databases from journal in 0 seconds: 198 unique entries (391 total entries)

Are there any plans to resolv this for lenny? Anything I can help with?
 -- Guido

Message #46 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emmanuel Lacour <elacour@home-dn.net>

To: 447040@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Proper STDOUT redirection

Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:28:57 +0100

here I confirm that the problem is only present for cron.d/amavisd-new as
it is run by the amavis user and so there is no "su -c" involved.

It's easy to reproduce with a script like this:

------------test.sh-------------
#!/bin/sh 
CMD="/bin/echo foo >/dev/null"
exec ${CMD}
--------------------------------

$ ./test.sh 
foo >/dev/null
$


I made different tests with different commands using ">/dev/null"
outside of quotes in the amavisd-new-cronjob script and cannot see any
side effect, it properly redirect STDOUT to /dev/null and keep STDERR if
any:


-do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync >/dev/null"
+do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync" >/dev/null


But you can also just move the >/dev/null in the if/then/else part as
this is common to both commands.

Message #51 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

To: 447040@bugs.debian.org

Subject: silence /etc/cron.d/amavisd-new

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:40:49 +0100

Hi,
I'm simply using:

diff --git a/debian/amavisd-new.cron.d b/debian/amavisd-new.cron.d
index 3baeee6..f909595 100644
--- a/debian/amavisd-new.cron.d
+++ b/debian/amavisd-new.cron.d
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 #  SpamAssassin maintenance for amavisd-new
 #
 # m h dom mon dow user  command
-18 */3	* * *	amavis	test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync
+18 */3	* * *	amavis	test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync >/dev/null

to silence the cron job. Can we get this fixed for Lenny? It really
annoys users.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

Message #56 received at 447040@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Diffie <debian@hofmar.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <447040@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: silence /etc/cron.d/amavisd-new

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:07:38 +0100

Package: amavisd-new
Version: 1:2.6.1.dfsg-1
Followup-For: Bug #447040


As alternative to fix the bug:
Modify /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob
Replace
exec /bin/su - "${SUUSER}" -c "$*"
by
exec /bin/su - "${SUUSER}" -s /bin/sh -c "$*"
to prevent the return code 1 from shell /bin/false of user amavis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages amavisd-new depends on:
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ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  file                          4.26-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  libarchive-zip-perl           1.18-1     Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii  libberkeleydb-perl            0.34-1+b1  use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         2.012-1    Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libconvert-tnef-perl          0.17-8     Perl module to read TNEF files
ii  libconvert-uulib-perl         1.11-1     Perl interface to the uulib librar
pn  libdigest-md5-perl            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libio-stringy-perl            2.110-4    Perl modules for IO from scalars a
ii  libmailtools-perl             2.03-1     Manipulate email in perl programs
pn  libmime-base64-perl           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libmime-tools-perl            5.427-1    Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libnet-server-perl            0.97-1     An extensible, general perl server
ii  libunix-syslog-perl           1.1-2      Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(
ii  perl [libtime-hires-perl]     5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libarchive-tar- 5.10.0-19  Core Perl modules

amavisd-new recommends no packages.

Versions of packages amavisd-new suggests:
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ii  cabextract                 1.2-3         a program to extract Microsoft Cab
ii  clamav                     0.94.dfsg.2-1 anti-virus utility for Unix - comm
ii  clamav-daemon              0.94.dfsg.2-1 anti-virus utility for Unix - scan
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pn  dspam                      <none>        (no description available)
pn  lha                        <none>        (no description available)
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pn  unrar                      <none>        (no description available)
ii  zoo                        2.10-21       manipulate zoo archives

-- debconf information excluded

Message #63 received at 447040-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>

To: 447040-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#447040: fixed in amavisd-new 1:2.6.2-1

Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:32:04 +0000

Source: amavisd-new
Source-Version: 1:2.6.2-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
amavisd-new, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

amavisd-new-milter_2.6.2-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/a/amavisd-new/amavisd-new-milter_2.6.2-1_amd64.deb
amavisd-new_2.6.2-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/a/amavisd-new/amavisd-new_2.6.2-1.diff.gz
amavisd-new_2.6.2-1.dsc
  to pool/main/a/amavisd-new/amavisd-new_2.6.2-1.dsc
amavisd-new_2.6.2-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/amavisd-new/amavisd-new_2.6.2-1_all.deb
amavisd-new_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/amavisd-new/amavisd-new_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 447040@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> (supplier of updated amavisd-new package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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