"Jeremy C. Reed" writes:
- The following reply was made to PR bin/37376; it has been noted by GNATS.
- 
- From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
- To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
- Cc: 
- Subject: Re: bin/37376: /etc/{daily,weekly,montly} shouldn't try to "dot in
- "
-  {}.local
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:44:02 -0600 (CST)
- 
-  On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, eschnoebelen@efjohnson.com wrote:
-  
-  >  	also present on 4.0_BETA?/RC?, 3.X.
-  
-  I do not have this problem on multiple 3.1 systems where I use a 
-  /etc/daily.local file. My /etc/daily.local files are not executable.
-  
-  I also can't reproduce this problem on my 4.99.27 system.

I've been seeing it regularly with my weekly script.

What I've really been seeing is a lack of output from my .local
scripts (notably weekly.local), and the appearance of it not
running.

However, after investigation, the real issue may be that ${TMP}
is a relative path in /etc/weekly, and my weekly.local changes
directories (it's primary task is to update the pkgsrc tree and
rebuild.)

Perhaps the the {daily,weekly,monthly,security} scripts should
use absolute path names for their temporary files?

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