Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2010-05-02 Thread Christian Kastner
severity 323710 wishlist retitle 323710 Better cron - anacron interaction thanks Hello, Joel Barker wrote: > When anacron is installed but disabled (ie, no symlink exists in /etc/rc?.d), > then cron will fail to run the cronjobs in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}. > This is because the default

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2005-08-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:36:53PM -0700, Joel Barker wrote: > You're right. Debian doesn't seem to provide any officially sanctioned way to > disable startup services (like Red Hat's chkconfig). This being so, disabling > services "by hand" should probably be considered "unsupported behavior":

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2005-08-19 Thread Joel Barker
> I have to admit that personally, I'm more concerned about jobs running > twice than not at all. Your method helps people who go around and > disable by hand the package rather than un-installing, but makes it > worse for _everyone_ who has anacron installed and actually uses it. > We can't keep

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2005-08-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:25:29PM -0700, Joel Barker wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 07:05 pm, Pascal Hakim wrote: > ... > > I'm not sure how to deal with this on anacron's side. If people are > > fiddling with the anacron <-> cron interaction, things are going to > > break. > > > > The method

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2005-08-18 Thread Joel Barker
On Thursday 18 August 2005 07:05 pm, Pascal Hakim wrote: ... > I'm not sure how to deal with this on anacron's side. If people are > fiddling with the anacron <-> cron interaction, things are going to > break. > > The method you're advocating would result in > cron.{daily,monthly,weekly}, being run

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2005-08-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:46:56PM -0700, Joel Barker wrote: > Package: cron > Version: 3.0pl1-86 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > When anacron is installed but disabled (ie, no symlink exists in /etc/rc?.d), > then cron will fail to run the cronjobs in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}. >

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2005-08-17 Thread Joel Barker
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-86 Severity: important Tags: patch When anacron is installed but disabled (ie, no symlink exists in /etc/rc?.d), then cron will fail to run the cronjobs in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}. This is because the default /etc/crontab file has lines such as the followi