Bug#381806: fcron works without needing a fcrontab entry

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:07:30AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2006-11-05 "R.Ramkumar" <ramk at cse.iitm.ernet.in> wrote:
> > The daily cron job does get executed out of the box with fcron,
> > contrary to the explanation given. fcron package (I have 3.0.1-1)
> > installs a systab entry in /var/spool/fcron which runs
> > `run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily` daily. Thus, the script shipped
> > by exim4-base is executed. So, a "cron | fcron" depends (I don't
> > know about bcron) should do.
> 
> Moreinfo: fcron nowadays executes /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}
> however it still does not support /etc/cron.d/. Therefore it cannot
> provide cron, but while exim only uses the former it would probably
> work with fcron.

Just for the record, we'll make this change post-etch. I surely hope
that fcron catches up wrt/ /etc/cron.d before I start using cron.d
without remembering.

Greetings
Marc

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