ubuntu server install should install cron

[James Andrewartha]

ubuntu-minimal does not depend on cron, so when doing a server install cron is not installed by default, which it should be as it is an essential part of any unix system.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

ubuntu-standard depends on cron, so it certainly should be installed during server installs. Perhaps you can provide an installer log?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I suspect you used the "server" option on the ordinary install CD, rather than the dedicated ubuntu-server CD?

[James Andrewartha (trs80)]

Yes, that is what I did. Is ubuntu-server going to be merged into the main CD for dapper?

[Ivan Krstić (krstic-deactivatedaccount)]

No; it's a separate product, shipping a different default set of software.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

No, ubuntu-server has been separated out into a different CD.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/releases/dapper/

This CD will install cron.

[James Andrewartha (trs80)]

Could then the name for minimal installation on the normal CD be changed to something else, to avoid confusion?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

There's already a bug open about that.

[James Andrewartha (trs80)]

Actually, fwiw, I recall that I did this installation via netboot as the machine didn't come with a cd drive. Would it be possible to combine the ubuntu and ubuntu-server minmal netboot images so that selecting server when netbooting does something sane?

[James Andrewartha (trs80)]

I just did a dapper server install using netboot. pxelinux.cfg/default has a server option with most of the stuff from the server CD's preseed, so ubuntu-standard (and cron) does get installed ok.