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[Bruce Bon <question78944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78944 on synaptic in ubuntu changed:
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Bruce Bon gave more information on the question:
Report on last night -- nothing ran.

My HughesNet activity log showed no download activity between 2 am and 7
am; the /var/log/syslog file showed no cron job running then either;
"crontab -l" from root says no crontab is active, but this may be normal
-- I notice that /etc/crontab comments say you don't have to run
crontab, so this seems to be a separate cron type from what I know
about.  There is a cron process running, from /usr/sbin/cron.

My /etc/crontab file:

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user	command
17 *	* * *	root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
05 2	* * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6	* * 7	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6	1 * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
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