2 Woody probs: Cron wants mrtg, and apt-get error

[Glen Snyder <snyderg@frontiernet.net>]

Problem #1:I've been running Woody without much of a problem for a
couple of months. Yesterday I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2, and every 5
minutes I get the following message added to mail:

From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
To: root@localhost.localdomain
Subject: Cron <root@storm> if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ]; then /usr/bin/mrtg
/etc/mrtg.cfg; fi
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:10:01 -0500

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/mrtg: No such file or directory

I'm not sure if the problem started with the kernel upgrade or with an
apt-get dist-upgrade.

Problem #2
I ran apt-get dist-upgrade today, and I get an error on install. The
error is as follows:

/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code
(127)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt

Any suggestions would be sincerely appreciated.
Thanks,
Glen