I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have cron-apt running.
The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release Unable to find expected entry nonfree/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry nonfree/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/lenny/volatile/Release Unable to find expected entry nonfree/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: What might be wrong? I just installed cron-apt and let it go. -- You'll feel much better once you've given up hope.
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