Bug 449864 - loss of cron
Summary: loss of cron
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cronie
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-03 23:31 UTC by Ray Todd Stevens
Modified: 2008-06-04 09:03 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: cronie-1.0-7.fc9
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-06-04 09:03:41 UTC
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Description Ray Todd Stevens 2008-06-03 23:31:19 UTC
Did preupgrade and then an upgrade on several machines.   Two of them lost the S
scripts in the rc5.d directory for crond.   This of course causes crond to stop
working.

I noticed it because logwatch stopped working.

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2008-06-04 02:39:03 UTC
This is more likely due to the change from vixie-cron to cronie. Reassigning

Comment 2 Ray Todd Stevens 2008-06-04 02:58:36 UTC
Interesting.  Wonder if it is not both.   As I understand preupgrade it
downloads the proper packages for the upgrade.   Is it possible that it didn't
know enough to download the cronie package, and so then during the upgrade the
old cron got deleted but the new one not fully installed.



Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2008-06-04 07:46:36 UTC
But you have cronie rpm installed, don't you?

There is a bug in the scripts in the cronie.spec. Unfortunately fixing it will
not help people which would do upgrade with F-9 release DVD.

But for the preupgrade it would make sense to fix it in F-9 updates anyway.



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