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This has been a long standing problem for Debian and reflects a lack of coordination between the package maintainers and a lack of ordering of cron job priorities. The simple way to get around this issue, which also affects the cron jobs of affick, dlocate, htdig, mlocate, webalizer, because they should all run after log rotation and any other manipulations of the file system and contents, is to rename the cron jobs to put them at the very bottom of the directory listing viz sarg ... webalizer ... zz_logrotate zz_webalizer zzz_dlocate zzz_mlocate zzzz_afick Why Debian maintainers do not communicate with each other to implement a very simple fix and/or no technical oversight coordination is applied by the Debian management teams to these issues which have existed for 10 YEARS OR MORE and thus NEVER resolved is left to the imagination of the reader.