On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:13:28AM -0300, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > Hi Holger, thanks for reporting. I would like to have your help before > changing > the cronjob code which causes this issue. > > Please see the policy "9.5 Cron jobs": > > "The scripts or crontab entries in these directories should check if all > necessary programs are installed before they try to execute them. Otherwise, > problems will arise when a package was removed but not purged since > configuration files are kept on the system in this situation." > > My cronjob file just checks if /sbin/apticron exists before running it: > > ti...@thinkpad:~/Hacking/apticron$ cat debian/cron.daily > #!/bin/sh > > test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron > > I know I could do it using other methods, but once the current one does what > the policy requires and does not send any annoying output, then I need to > imagine a situation where this behavior could affect the system. And I can't > think in anything for now. So, could you give me an example?
Also note that crontab calls run-parts without "--exit-on-error" parameter. Regards, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .''`. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz GPG : 1024D/A504FECA : :' : http://tiagovaz.org XMPP : tiago at jabber.org `. `' tiago at {tiagovaz,debian}.org IRC : tiago at OFTC `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS http://www.debian.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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