Re: Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:32:04PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> fcron doesn't appear to run cron.daily by default, and neither does bcron.
> *Only* the cron package ships a crontab that runs /etc/cron.daily by
> default; anacron also supports running cron.daily, but relies on cron itself
> to trigger it on a daily basis.  (Without cron installed, anacron will only
> rotate logs when you reboot.)

Hi, the bcron-run package provides /etc/crontab, which includes

24 4 * * *  root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

Regards, Gerrit.