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Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron



On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:51:59PM +0200, Tim Raats wrote:
> Tim Raats wrote:
> 
> >John Fleming wrote:
> >
> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron B" <kantai@GameBox.net>
> >>To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >>Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:19 PM
> >>Subject: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron
> >>
> >>
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> >>Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from 
> >>apt-get. It seemed to be a problem with not being able to find 
> >>/usr/bin/crontab while upgrading - so I removed cron, and then 
> >>attempted to install it. Here is the output:
> >>
> >>[root@localhost]! apt-get install cron
> >>Reading Package Lists... Done
> >>Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >>Suggested packages:
> >>anacron logrotate checksecurity
> >>Recommended packages:
> >>exim4 postfix mail-transport-agent
> >>The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >>cron
> >>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >>Need to get 0B/34.6kB of archives.
> >>After unpacking 217kB of additional disk space will be used.
> >>Selecting previously deselected package cron.
> >>(Reading database ... 103249 files and directories currently installed.)
> >>Unpacking cron (from .../cron_3.0pl1-84_i386.deb) ...
> >>Setting up cron (3.0pl1-84) ...
> >>chgrp: cannot access `/usr/bin/crontab': No such file or directory
> >>dpkg: error processing cron (--configure):
> >>subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> >>Errors were encountered while processing:
> >>cron
> >>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for any help. I hope I don't lose too much sleep 
> >>over this.
> >>
> >>----------------------------
> >>SAME HERE (Sid)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
> Im having the same problem with SID. IS this going to be fixed ?
> 

According to the bug log this was already fix, which means it will
probably be available in a couple of hours if not already (if you are
not using the main site, it may take some time to propagate to your
mirror though).

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