Bug#524219: /etc/cron.d/sysstat does not generate any reports

[Michael Goetze]

Package: sysstat
Version: 8.1.2-2
Severity: important

According to README.Debian:

As it was said above, the package installs  system crontab file, namely
/etc/cron.d/sysstat. There's no need to follow the `Examples' section of
sa1(8) and sa2(8) man pages and create entries in your root crontab file
by hand. Creating such entries can lead to a situation, where e.g. two
copies of sa2(8) script will be run simultaneously, which can cause errors.

However /etc/cron.d/sysstat never calls sa2:

# Global variables:
#
#  our configuration file
DEFAULT=/etc/default/sysstat
#  default setting, overriden in the above file
ENABLED=false
SA1_OPTIONS=""

# Activity reports every 10 minutes everyday


# Additional run at 23:59 to rotate the statistics file

5-55/10 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 ] && { [ -r "$DEFAULT" ] && . "$DEFAULT" ; [ "$ENABLED" = "true" ] && exec /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 $SA1_OPTIONS 1 1 ; } 59 23 * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 ] && { [ -r "$DEFAULT" ] && . "$DEFAULT" ; [ "$ENABLED" = "true" ] && exec /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 $SA1_OPTIONS 60 2 ; }

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