[Linux-disciples] Re: Cron <root@JeffTweedy> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly (fwd)

[Adam Kessel]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:17:56AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Very sorry: the proper response is to install scrollkeeper.
> I'm not clear on why there was a monthly cron job for
> scrollkeeper if I didn't have it installed, but alas.

Yes, right. I'm surprised you didn't have scrollkeeper installed; I
thought it was a dependency for many gnome packages.

The reason this happens is that the cron job was probably classified as a
configuration file and thus was not purged when, at some point, you
uninstalled scrollkeeper (or more likely scrollkeeper was forced out by a
conflict).  Unless you apt-get --purge remove things, the configuration
files stay.  Sometimes this creates bad results, such as this example.  I
don't think the Debian structure has a good solution for this at present.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org

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