Package: fcron Version: 3.0.1-1.2 Severity: important For the second time in a year, I noticed that my nightly backups hadn't been done in a month. In both cases, the date of the last backup coincided with the date that fcron had been upgraded. It therefore appears that fcron forgets root's settings upon an upgrade. Here are root's settings now:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:515]$ sudo fcrontab -l 09:06:26 listing root's fcrontab # $Id: fcrontab 8266 2007-05-15 03:49:10Z root $ # # fcrontab for root user. See fcrontab(5) for details. # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # # Local Reporting # Interestingly, the variables and comments are unaffected. Here's what it should have looked like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:518]$ sudo fcrontab /usr/local/etc/fcrontab 09:11:06 installing file /usr/local/etc/fcrontab for user root Modifications will be taken into account right now. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:519]$ sudo fcrontab -l 09:11:14 listing root's fcrontab # $Id: fcrontab 8266 2007-05-15 03:49:10Z root $ # # fcrontab for root user. See fcrontab(5) for details. # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # # Local Reporting # 0 4 * * * nice run-parts --report /usr/local/etc/cron.daily 0 5 * * 0 nice run-parts --report /usr/local/etc/cron.weekly 0 6 1 * * nice run-parts --report /usr/local/etc/cron.monthly Note that fcrontabs of normal users are not affected in this fashion. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fcron depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.14.18 package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-6 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries ii postfix [mail-transport-agen 2.5.2~rc2-1 High-performance mail transport ag Versions of packages fcron recommends: ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon] 1.5-3 System Logging Daemon -- debconf information: * fcron/anacronwarn: -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]