Hi Ola,
Am Samstag, 26. Dezember 2015, 16:13:18 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Jurgen
>
> If it is not running something is wrong with the cron daemon. Is 'cron'
> running?
cron seems to be running:
jba@lina:~$ ps axu | grep cron
root 525 0.0 0.1 4992 2204 ? Ss Dez25 0:00
/usr/sbin/cron -f
jba 5544 0.0 0.1 4560 2160 pts/1 S+ 18:52 0:00 grep cron
>
> Also do you have logs from anything else, maybe you do not have syslog
> installed?
I have logs:
jba@lina:~$ ll -t /var/log/
insgesamt 6404588
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 1022976 Dez 26 18:52 wtmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 730070 Dez 26 18:50 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2188185837 Dez 26 18:50 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 9194198 Dez 26 18:35 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 13263948 Dez 26 18:34 messages
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 408590 Dez 26 18:34 user.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2178386631 Dez 26 18:34 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2165081044 Dez 26 18:34 debug
rsyslog is installed:
jba@lina:~$ list_installed syslog
ii rsyslog 8.4.2-1+deb8u1
i386 reliable system and kernel logging daemon
jba@lina:~$ apt-cache policy rsyslog
rsyslog:
Installiert: 8.4.2-1+deb8u1
Installationskandidat: 8.4.2-1+deb8u1
Versionstabelle:
*** 8.4.2-1+deb8u1 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Please also note that by default it is just run once per day (night
> actually) so you have to check a log of logs.
The logs in /var/log do not contain any output from cron-apt. All the messages
seem to be send to /var/log/cron-apt/log. However, this file contains only one
entry - it was made when I started cron-apt manually.
>
> You can check the logs like this:
> grep -i cron-apt /var/log/*
>
Not much.
root@lina:/var/log/cron-apt# grep -i cron-apt /var/log/*
grep: /var/log/apt: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/cron-apt: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/cups: Ist ein Verzeichnis
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 install cron-apt:all <keine> 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status half-installed cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 configure cron-apt:all 0.9.2 <keine>
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status unpacked cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status half-configured cron-apt:all 0.9.2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2015-09-05 14:00:32 status installed cron-apt:all 0.9.2
grep: /var/log/exim4: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/firebird: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/fsck: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/hp: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/installer: Ist ein Verzeichnis
grep: /var/log/speech-dispatcher: Ist ein Verzeichnis
/var/log/syslog:Dec 22 21:25:01 lina cron[529]: (*system*cron-apt) RELOAD
(/etc/cron.d/cron-apt)
grep: /var/log/unattended-upgrades: Ist ein Verzeichnis
Hope this helps.
Juergen
> If you see any lines there it has been run.
>
> Cheers,
>
> // Ola
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Jürgen Bausa <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
> > Package: cron-apt
> > Version: 0.9.2
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > on my system, cron-apt is never run. Directly invoking from shell works,
> > but is
> > never run automatically by cron. I noticed this by checking the log.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 8.2
> >
> > APT prefers stable-updates
> > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> >
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 4.2.8-040208-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> >
> > Versions of packages cron-apt depends on:
> > ii apt 1.0.9.8.1
> >
> > Versions of packages cron-apt recommends:
> > ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2
> > ii cron 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1
> > ii liblockfile1 1.09-6
> >
> > cron-apt suggests no packages.
> >
> > -- Configuration Files:
> > /etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download changed:
> > autoclean -y
> > dist-upgrade -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true
> >
> > /etc/cron.d/cron-apt changed:
> >
> >
> > -- no debconf information
