Recommended update for cronie

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:3577-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Magnum Orchestration 7
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for cronie provides the following fixes:

  • Prefer flock locking instead of fcntl locking that has different semantics. It caused a bug where it was possible to run more than one cron process as the locking was not successful. (bsc#1017160)
  • Check the existence of the user at the time the job is run and do not ignore jobs for users that were not existing at database reload. This prevents cron from ignoring jobs in user crontab for users that changed group meanwhile. (bsc#1077979)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Magnum Orchestration 7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2018-2533=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-2533=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2533=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2533=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2533=1
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

Package List:

  • Magnum Orchestration 7 (x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 (x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0 (x86_64)
    • cron-4.2-59.3.2
    • cronie-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.3.2
    • cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.3.2

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