Bug#19466: cron: init script error

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-43

root@kite:/usr/src/linux>/etc/init.d/cron stop
/etc/init.d/cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
/etc/init.d/cron: line 20: `    ; cron reloads automatically'
root@kite:/usr/src/linux>/etc/init.d/cron start
/etc/init.d/cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
/etc/init.d/cron: line 20: `    ; cron reloads automatically'

It turns out you have a line prefaced by ";", that should be prefaced by
"#".

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (unstable)
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.1.89 #1 Mon Mar 9 13:45:26 PST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages cron depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.7pre1-3
bsdutils	Version: 4.1
debianutils	Version: 1.7

--- Begin /etc/checksecurity.conf (modified conffile)
CS_NFSAFS='(nfs|afs) \(.*(nosuid|noexec).*nodev.*\)'
CS_TYPES=' type (proc|msdos|iso9660|ncpfs|smbfs|'$CS_NFSAFS')'
CS_DEVS='^/dev/fd'
CS_DIRS='on /mnt|on /kite|on /box'
CHECKSECURITY_FILTER="$CS_TYPES|$CS_DEVS|$CS_DIRS"
unset CS_NFSAFS CS_TYPES CS_DIRS

--- End /etc/checksecurity.conf

--- Begin /etc/crontab (modified conffile)
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
0 0	* * *	root	nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
21 0	* * 7	root	nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
31 0	1 * *	root	nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
0-55/5 *        * * *   root    /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg

--- End /etc/crontab

--- Begin /etc/init.d/cron (modified conffile)
test -f /usr/sbin/cron || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)	echo -n "Starting periodic command scheduler: cron"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/cron
        echo "." 
	;;
stop)	echo -n "Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/cron
        echo "."
        ;;
restart) echo -n "Re-starting periodic command scheduler: cron"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/cron
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/cron
        ;;
reload|force-reload) echo -n "Re-loading configuration files for periodic command scheduler: cron"
	# cron reloads automatically
        ;;
*)	echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/cron start|stop"; exit 1 
        ;;
esac
exit 0

--- End /etc/init.d/cron


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