On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 02:00:42PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > On 2023-08-05 13:23, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 5 Aug 2023 22:13 +0200, from johndoe65...@mail.com (john doe): > > > > But cron isn't installed. > > > > > > I just install a new Bookworm VM and 'cron' is present! :) > > > > Ditto. That must be some customization your VPS provider has made, if > > the installation didn't somehow fail. > > I'll talk to them. The VPS was acting quite strangely, anyhow, and rather > than fight with Bookworm, I nuked the VPS and created another one from their > bullseye image.
:-)
> > Or you could ask your VPS provider why they aren't providing
> > "important" packages in their default image.
>
> This is the first time it's happened. Of the Linux images I've used there,
> Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, and Debian bullseye all shipped
> with cron properly installed. Come to think of it... I just checked a local
> bookworm VM I'm running at home, and it has cron installed, too. I'll open a
> ticket.
Please keep us posted.
> Thanks :)
Thank you for reporting the good find.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
--
Silence is hard to parse
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
