Package: anacron
Version: 2.3-23
Severity: normal
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For unknown reason at some point I had carriage returns as line-endings
in my anacrontab, which resulted in a very strange behaviour of anacron.
While some of my jobs still got executed, others, like the cron.daily
job each day failed with the message:
run-parts: failed to open directory /etc/cron.daily: No such file or
directory
See StackOverflow thread for the whole story:
https://superuser.com/questions/1056326/anacron-fails-to-open-folder-cron-daily-cron-weekly
From my POV anacron either should refuse a corrupted anacrontab, and
sent a proper message to root. Or it should just work fine with these
carriage returns.
Here a visualisation of the corrupted anacrontab:
sed -n l anacrontab
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron\r$
...
A newly generated anacron tab looks like that:
sed -n l anacrontab
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron$
...
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64
Debian Release: 8.4
500 trusty ppa.launchpad.net
500 stable-updates ftp.de.debian.org
500 stable security.debian.org
500 stable ftp.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-============
libc6 (>= 2.7) |
debianutils (>= 1.7) |
lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) |
Recommends (Version) | Installed
====================================-+-===============
cron (>= 3.0pl1-43) | 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1
rsyslog |
OR system-log-daemon |
Suggests (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-===========
default-mta |
OR mail-transport-agent |
powermgmt-base | 1.31+nmu1
