From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020326 Description of problem: By default, the MRTG package creates its cron entry in /etc/crontab. This is wrong. It defeats the purpose of using standard tools for cron administration (crontab, etc.). The package should make the entry like any other software, using crontab, or other method, and should leave /etc/crontab untouched. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install MRTG package 2. 3. Actual Results: The cron entry is created directly in /etc/crontab Expected Results: The cron entry should be created in /var/spool/cron/root Additional info:
Better yet, it's simpler and more elegant to create a file in /etc/cron.d, like sysstat does. Then there's no need to edit nasty cron files when installing the package. ;-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51812 ***