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and subject line Re: Bug#783382: mrtg uninstall broken, leaves garbage cronjob
has caused the Debian Bug report #783382,
regarding mrtg uninstall broken, leaves garbage cronjob
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Package: mrtg
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Installing and uninstalling the mrtg package
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
# apt-get install mrtg
# apt-get remove mrtg
* What was the outcome of this action?
After installing mrtg, a file was created at /etc/cron.d/mrtg
(the cronjob for mrtg)
After uninstalling, the cron file is still there
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The cron file should have been removed when removing the package.
If every uninstalled package was to leave garbage around, and especially
cron entries pointing to
executables that no longer exist, debinan would end up being a mess.
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"Remove thESE lineS"?? Which lines? Do you mean thIS line?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mrtg depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u6
ii libgd2-xpm 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1
ii libsnmp-session-perl 1.13-1.1~deb7u1
ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u2
ii perl-modules 5.14.2-21+deb7u2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
mrtg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mrtg suggests:
ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.22-13+deb7u3
pn mrtg-contrib <none>
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-8
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Matteo Sisti Sette
<[email protected]> wrote:
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> After installing mrtg, a file was created at /etc/cron.d/mrtg
> (the cronjob for mrtg)
> After uninstalling, the cron file is still there
>
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> The cron file should have been removed when removing the package.
> If every uninstalled package was to leave garbage around, and especially
> cron entries pointing to
> executables that no longer exist, debinan would end up being a mess.
nope, the cron is a conffile, as you can see with
$ dpkg --status mrtg | grep -A3 Conf
Conffiles:
/etc/logrotate.d/mrtg adc9405c8ad58d86ef5de00563c3407b
/etc/mrtg.cfg 65797ef4da55f538556c6754182fd5b1
/etc/cron.d/mrtg 89d528bcb179858f61e8af4363f0c04c
so it will only be removed on --purge
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> "Remove thESE lineS"?? Which lines? Do you mean thIS line?
yes; attitude not required.
Regards,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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