Bug#930765: Acknowledgement ([cron] default crontab produces error due to whitespace instead of tab)

2019-06-26 Thread Peter Niederlag
hourly mail is getting more and more into my way. I know discovered an exact copy of original /etc/crontab as crontab of root user, this one is saved into /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root and managed via crontab cli binary. Now I added tab separation there as well, let's see how it turns out.

Bug#930765: Acknowledgement ([cron] default crontab produces error due to whitespace instead of tab)

2019-06-21 Thread Peter Niederlag
well, error messages are coming back so I fear the true root cause is somewhere else. strange enough, error message is even sent after commenting the line and restarting cron as well as anacron. don't really have a clue on what to check next.