On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:16:57PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > > But cron isn't installed. > > Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet > converted to systemd timers. A bookworm install I did just yesterday > has cron jobs in /etc/cron.d/ that require the "cron" package.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I've now checked this and the default install that I did got these system cron jobs: /etc/cron.d/e2scrub_all /etc/cron.d/ntpsec /etc/cron.daily/man-db /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.daily/dpkg /etc/cron.weekly/man-db …all of which have systemd timers which take precedence, so aren't actually used. So I take it back: it does seem possible to have a functioning minimal Debian install without cron and without going to any great effort to create your own systemd timers. Though I am sure there's still plenty of packages with cron jobs and not timers (yet). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
