Re: cron doesn't start at boot up?

To: Chow Chi-Ming <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk>
Cc: "Bernt T. Hansen" <bthansen@hookup.net>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cron doesn't start at boot up?
From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 1997 00:15:03 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87lo8kdmv8.fsf@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Chow Chi-Ming's message of Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:54:08 +0800
References: <[🔎] 199702190831.QAA03340@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.970219093942.10168B-100000@gollum.norang.com> <[🔎] 199702200454.MAA00882@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk>

Chow Chi-Ming <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk> writes:

> I am just querying why the cron postinst doesn't install, or offer to
> install the cron deamon using update-rc.d, so that cron is started at
> boot up.  Even the gpm daemon (a significantly less important daemon)
> is started at boot up by default.

This was a bug in the cron package.  It's been fixed in newer
versions.

-- 
Rob


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