YES, I know that the postinst doesn't work if you don't have any user crontabs, feel free to stop reporting the bug -- I have enough.
You can get the installation to complete by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postinst and removing these three lines near the end: for ct in * ; do chown $ct:crontab $ct done Then run 'dpkg --configure --pending'. Yes, obvious in retrospect, and I'll put the brown paper bag on my head after I upload the fix. Steve - Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net