[Labs-l] cron not working?

[Bryan Davis]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Same here. I hope someone with root powers reads the list, otherwise I'll
>> file a bug report tomorrow.
>
>> […]
>
> I've commented on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132475.
> From glancing at the error messages for the tool dbreps, the
> new jsub script does not seem to stop parsing at the first
> non-option, so it tries (and fails) to parse arguments to
> the program to be executed.

This is most certainly fallout from my rewrite of jsub. I have a patch
up in gerrit [0] that I think may fix it. Unfortunately I'm not sure
how to build and deploy the deb package (or if I even have rights to
do so).

The quick workaround that can be applied is to change your invocations
of jsub (and jstart and qcronsub) to add a '--' argument parsing stop
indicator just before your binary name. Example:

  $ jsub -N just-testing -- ~/something -s 1234


[0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/287875/

Bryan
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