[Bug 1254614] Re: /usr/sbin/anacron is a symlink to true

[Uwe Lück]

I have spent many days with learning about logrotate, cron jobs, and
launchpad etiquette (as to posting a comment), which may take me into
financial troubles. Now just let me …

I discovered this here starting from bug #1385537, and it helped me to
fix the latter. However, I have described there how my situation differs
from the situation here.

Another point: I have wondered and searched the web much time in order
not only to find out how rotating logs and anacron etc. work, but
actually: whether the developers of (Lu|Xu|U)buntu have *intended* to
rotate logs by anacron.

Idea from that: Cron jobs might *intentionally* have been disabled (by
linking to /bin/true) for a *live* session, maybe not thinking about the
persistent case, rather about brief rescue or installation sessions
where rotating and cron jobs seem to be useless and perhaps disturb jobs
the user has in mind.

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Title:
  /usr/sbin/anacron is a symlink to true

Status in “anacron” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The original is present in /usr/sbin/anacron.distrib
  Even when I change it , it changes back the next day during / after the anacron daily.

  This is seen on 3 machines. They are all running Lubuntu live images,
  from USB DOKs, with casper-rw as a separate partition (not file).

  On properly installed machines (mainly Xubuntu) there is no problem.

  transspot at lubuntu:~$ ll /usr/sbin/anac*
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 Nov 19 12:54 /usr/sbin/anacron -> /bin/true*
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30076 Dec 20  2012 /usr/sbin/anacron.distrib*

  transspot at lubuntu:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.10
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=saucy
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.10"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: anacron 2.3-19ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  Date: Mon Nov 25 09:29:30 2013
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: anacron
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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