#1120460 storebackup: Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"USER"} in string

Package:
storebackup
Source:
storebackup
Submitter:
Francesco Potortì
Date:
2025-11-25 16:23:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1120460#5
Date:
2025-11-10 06:54:57 UTC
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To:
When calling backup from cron as root, I get this message:

Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"USER"} in string eq at /usr/bin/storeBackup line 141.
#1120460#10
Date:
2025-11-25 16:16:27 UTC
From:
To:
I discovered that when called from Cron, USER is not set (but LOGNAME is).

This patch corrects the problem:

--- storeBackup~	2025-08-27 12:21:58.000000000 +0200
+++ storeBackup	2025-11-25 17:10:11.009385743 +0100
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@


 my $storeBackupUpdateBackup_prg = 'storeBackupUpdateBackup.pl';
-my $lockFile = ($ENV{'USER'} eq 'root') ?     # default value
+my $lockFile = ($ENV{'LOGNAME'} eq 'root') ?     # default value
 		'/var/lock/storeBackup.lock' :
 		$ENV{'HOME'} . '/storeBackup.lock';
 my (@compress) = ('bzip2');               # default value
--- storeBackupDel~	2025-08-27 12:21:58.000000000 +0200
+++ storeBackupDel	2025-11-25 17:10:05.985466090 +0100
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 require 'fileDir.pl';
 require 'humanRead.pl';