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:
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Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
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