Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? upgrading from version 7 to version 8 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? changed the cron syntax to work around this * What was the outcome of this action? the cron jobs started working * What outcome did you expect instead? That the cron syntax would remain persistent across upgrades as documented in the Debain admin guide -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- /usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/vim.gnome --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 36008 Jun 11 2015 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron: drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 21 2015 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs: drwx-wx--T 3 root crontab 4096 Jun 4 11:51 /var/spool/cron/crontabs --- /etc/cron.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 13:12 /etc/cron.d --- /etc/cron.daily: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 13:16 /etc/cron.daily --- /etc/cron.hourly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 13:12 /etc/cron.hourly --- /etc/cron.monthly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 13:12 /etc/cron.monthly --- /etc/cron.weekly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 13:16 /etc/cron.weekly -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.10 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii dpkg 1.17.27 ii init-system-helpers 1.22 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u10 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u2 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u2+b1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 Versions of packages cron recommends: ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.3-1+deb8u2 Versions of packages cron suggests: pn anacron <none> pn checksecurity <none> ii logrotate 3.8.7-1+b1 Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> pn libnss-ldapd <none> pn libpam-ldap <none> pn libpam-mount <none> ii nis 3.17-33 pn nscd <none> -- debconf-show failed