Bug#179585: general: crontab uses anacron but anacron is not installed

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:41:51AM +0100, Grzegorz Szyszlo wrote:
> config of cron package use by default /etc/crontab file:
> 25 6    * * *   root    test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.daily
> 47 6    * * 7   root    test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.weekly
> 52 6    1 * *   root    test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.monthly
> 
> 
> unfortunately cron package not depend anacron package.
> without install anacron, temporary files are not deleted,
> and waste disk space.

Eh? If anacron isn't installed, it will just run the
/etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} scripts at the usual times, provided
your system is up. (If your system isn't up at that time, you should
install anacron, but many systems are up all the time.)

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]