debian bookworm and cron aliases not expanding
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As mentioned in the subject line, I upgraded my backup server (debian bullseye) to debian bookworm yesterday. Since I upgraded, the aliases in crontab are not expanding. The aliases are sent a backup report from the rsync command line (cron job). Previous debian dist were fine when upgrading. I have done a search and could not find anything. Has anybody seen this issue ?
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@pattonb I know it's a pain, but I never use aliases, especially in crantab since crontab gets executed in a different shell environment.
If your command is to long without the alias, perhaps it would be better to put it in a shell script to use in cron instead of the command directly?
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@travisdh1
It is in a shell script, crontab just runs the script. The script is about 17 lines.
The weird thing is ( to me) , this backup server has been in operation for about 10+ years, so
minimal changes ( hardware over the time frame), and I started with Debian squeeze, and I have
never had any issues aside of a failing disk on the raid array. It has something to do with the
upgrade to Bookworm, I guess I will need to look over the release notes again, and/or replace postfix. -
If you're running a script that relies on the aliases, you can add the aliases to the top of the script if you need to.
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@dafyre of course. The aliases are email addresses, as the cronjob output needs to be emailed
to a few/several recipients. The script runs fine. I have zero issues with the script. It is just
the email aliases are not expanding ( /etc/aliases) .I am puzzled as it has worked fine for literally years.
