Package: anacron Version: 2.3-17 Severity: important Tags: security
Hi. The idea of anacron is to more or less "guarantee" that cron jobs are run on hosts that are not always up. This can also include security relevant stuff, like running rkhunter, downloading the latest virus signatures, etc.. While it's nice to be able to control that it does not run on battery, the secure default should be to run always. Especially people who rarely (or never) use the system on power may otherwise run into the situation that their cron jobs are not executed (often enough). Further, the default file should contain a hint about what may happen, when this is changed (i.e. about what I wrote above). Third, when such a big change is introduced (and from the point of view of anacron's whole intention this is a big change) it should be noted in the NEWS file. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
