Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Stephan Seitz:
> Hi!
> 
> System: Debian Squeeze
> 
> After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs.
> One belongs to the package and is installed in /etc/cron.daily. It
> calls apticron without options.
> The other one is created by the postinst script in /etc/cron.d with
> a random start time. It calls apticron with the -cron option which
> creates a status file in /var, so that apticron only runs once a day.
> 
> Since the first cronjob calls apticron without an option, apticron will
> run twice a day. Does anyone know the reason for this behaviour?

Maybe not.

Does apticron -cron yield a full apticron run or just update that status 
file?

Anything in /usr/share/doc/apticron/README.Debian.gz?

I use cronapt.

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