Package: ldap2zone Version: 0.2-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I installed ldap2zone for testing purposes (not for production). Since i installed it, the administrator gets an email every hour with the content: > Subject: Cron <bind@HOSTNAME> /usr/sbin/ldap2bind >> ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1) >> No domains configured. Exiting... * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I did not configure ldap2zone. Esp. i did not modify (or even create) a file /etc/defaults/ldap2zone. I also do not remember being told to craete (or modify) such a file during the installation process. * What was the outcome of this action? ldap2zone sets up a cronjob to run /usr/sbin/ldap2bind each hour, and ldap2bind generates a (non-descript) error because of the missing /etc/defaults/ldap2zone. flooding the admin's mailbox. * What outcome did you expect instead? i *expected* to not get an error-message each hour simply because i installed a package. i think the proper procedure would be: - during installation, tell the administrator that they need to create/configure a file "/etc/defaults/ldap2zone" in order to use that service. AND - skip the cron-job if that file is not present. something like the following $ cat /etc/cron.d/ldap2zone PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin @reboot bind test -x /usr/sbin/ldap2bind && test -e /etc/defaults/ldap2zone && /usr/sbin/ldap2bind @hourly bind test -x /usr/sbin/ldap2bind && test -e /etc/defaults/ldap2zone && /usr/sbin/ldap2bind *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ldap2zone depends on: ii bind9 1:9.9.5.dfsg-12+b1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.42+dfsg-2 ldap2zone recommends no packages. ldap2zone suggests no packages. -- no debconf information