On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:26:47PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.67 > Severity: important > > After enabling email on my laptop for the first time in many years, I > discovered this message from the cron subsystem: > > From: root@mylaptop (Cron Daemon) > Subject: Cron <root@mylaptop> test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest > && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest --crond > To: root@mylaptop > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:50:01 +0200 > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: 109: > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: runuser: not found > > The laptop installation has survived many upgrades, so the problem might > have bee introduced a long time ago. This seem to be the same problem > reported in <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/709892 >, which was believed > to be solved then. > > Here are some pieces of information that might be relevant: > > root@minerva:~# ls -l /etc/cron*/popu* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4571 mai 20 2018 /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 juni 22 2015 /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest
Hello Petter, long time no see! Could you compare your /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest with the official one in 1.67 ? Please not that popcon 1.70 do not use runuser at all. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
