[Popcon-developers] Bug#331438: wrong usage of "su" in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest

[Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:43:08AM +0100, Nicolas Fran?ois wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [This bug is already tagged as pending, this is just an additional note]
> 
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:07:45PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > 
> > > invoking /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest fails with: "sh: - :
> > > invalid option". looking into the script, line 34 tries to "su" to
> > > nobody and executes /usr/sbin/popularity-contest. the following
> > > patch should speak for itself:
> > 
> > What version of su is this?  The code has worked quite a long time, so
> > it can't be the normal su. :)
> 
> I don't know which version of su Christian was using in October, but
> current su (4.0.14-1) does not work with the current popcon cron task.
> 
> Christian's patch (and thus the version in CVS) fixes this.

This is very annoying because this means partial sarge to etch
upgrade will break popcon.

Cheers,
Bill.