Bug#1244: at: problem with update

[Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

J. H. M. Dassen writes ("Bug#1244: at: problem with update"):
> Preparing to replace at (using at-2.8a-2.deb) ...
> Opening /etc/crontab to deinstall atrun: No such file or directory
...
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  9 18:43 /etc/cron.daily
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  5 12:59 /etc/cron.monthly
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  9 18:43 /etc/cron.weekly

The `at' scripts are quite right to fail in this situation.  What
happened to your /etc/crontab file ?  Did you delete it ?

I'd suggest:
 dpkg --purge --force-depends cron
 dpkg --install cron*.deb

(There will in be a better way of doing this that doesn't involve
--force-depends.)

If we can't find out what deleted your crontab I suppose we'll have to
close the bug as-is.

Ian.