Your message dated Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:21:03 +0200 with message-id <sa6r1szy39s.fsf@hjemme.reinholdtsen.name> and subject line Re: Bug#966119: popularity-contest: Unable to find runuser due to missing /sbin/ in PATH? has caused the Debian Bug report #966119, regarding popularity-contest: Unable to find runuser due to missing /sbin/ in PATH? to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 966119: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966119 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: popularity-contest: Unable to find runuser due to missing /sbin/ in PATH?
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:26:47 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87wo2u8r2w.fsf@minerva.reinholdtsen.name>
Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.67 Severity: important After enabling email on my laptop for the first time in many years, I discovered this message from the cron subsystem: From: root@mylaptop (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron <root@mylaptop> test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest --crond To: root@mylaptop Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:50:01 +0200 /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: 109: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: runuser: not found The laptop installation has survived many upgrades, so the problem might have bee introduced a long time ago. This seem to be the same problem reported in <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/709892 >, which was believed to be solved then. Here are some pieces of information that might be relevant: root@minerva:~# ls -l /etc/cron*/popu* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4571 mai 20 2018 /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 juni 22 2015 /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest root@minerva:~# cat /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest SHELL=/bin/sh 50 4 * * * root test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest --crond root@minerva:~# dpkg -l '*cron*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-==================-============-======================================= ii anacron 2.3-28 amd64 cron-like program that doesn't go by ti ii cron 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1 amd64 process scheduling daemon -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
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- Subject: Re: Bug#966119: popularity-contest: Unable to find runuser due to missing /sbin/ in PATH?
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:21:03 +0200
- Message-id: <sa6r1szy39s.fsf@hjemme.reinholdtsen.name>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] sa6tuxvy3mp.fsf@hjemme.reinholdtsen.name>
- References: <[🔎] 87wo2u8r2w.fsf@minerva.reinholdtsen.name> <[🔎] 20200723112608.GH16991@yellowpig> <[🔎] 87wo2u8r2w.fsf@minerva.reinholdtsen.name> <[🔎] sa6o8o68lmu.fsf@hjemme.reinholdtsen.name> <[🔎] 20200724194200.GH13566@yellowpig> <[🔎] 87wo2u8r2w.fsf@minerva.reinholdtsen.name> <[🔎] sa6v9icefng.fsf@hjemme.reinholdtsen.name> <[🔎] 20200725094540.GA3083@yellowpig> <[🔎] sa6tuxvy3mp.fsf@hjemme.reinholdtsen.name>
Version: 1.63 Old problem, old solution. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
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