[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#744828: systemd-cron not running cron jobs.

[Dean Loros]

Package: systemd-cron
Version: 1.1.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
I had install systemd back in mid-Feb--had not checked logs until last week. I
found that cron jobs were not being run.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I manually installed the newer  systemd-cron package from upstream (1.21) &
corrected it to work with my system.  This started to make cron jobs work. My
logs indicated that "/user/bin/run-parts"  were not found, so jobs were not
run.
I then created a link from /bin/run-parts to /usr/bin/run-parts which was the
final piece of the puzzle.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
Cron jobs are now running normally.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Expected version 1.1.1-1 to run cron jobs normally.


I can be contacted to show what I did to make the cron.target(s) run - the
changes were very minimal.

I run a sid system & pull from experimental were it looks like it would be
helpful.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (900, 'experimental'), (900, 'unstable'), (850, 'testing'), (500,
'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd-cron depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.18
ii  systemd              204-8

systemd-cron recommends no packages.

systemd-cron suggests no packages.