Bug#381806: fcron works without needing a fcrontab entry

[Andreas Metzler]

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.

cu andreas