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



On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:03:22AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> 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

Ok, then the bcron-run package (but not the bcron package) would meet that
requirement.

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