The following changes were made:

* Moved crontab from usher into CONFIG
  * Modified init script to use status_of_proc from init-functions
  * Modified usher to use init script status to check if daemon running

SNAP/cron.init

@@ -36,13 +36,7 @@ case "$1" in
     $0 start
     ;;
   status)
-    pid=$(pidofproc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON")
-
-    if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
-      echo "cron not running"
-    else
-      echo "cron running with PID: $pid"
-    fi
+    status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" || exit 1
     ;;
   *)
     echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart|status]"

SNAP/crontab

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-SHELL=/bin/sh
-PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
-
-# we use the runall script to execute any scripts in the cron.hourly,
-# cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly directories
-
-# m h dom mon dow user  command
-17  * *   *   *   root  cd / && runall /etc/cron.hourly
-25  6 *   *   *   root  cd / && runall /etc/cron.daily
-47  6 *   *   7   root  cd / && runall /etc/cron.weekly
-52  6 1   *   *   root  cd / && runall /etc/cron.monthly

SNAP/usher

@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ case $1 in
     exit 0
     ;;
   postinst)
-    [ -f "/run/cron.pid" ] && /etc/init.d/cron restart
-    [ -f "/etc/crontab" ] || cp /usr/share/cron/crontab /etc/crontab
+    /etc/init.d/cron status 2>&1 > /dev/null && /etc/init.d/cron restart
     exit 0
     ;;
   prerm)
-    [ -f "/run/cron.pid" ] && /etc/init.d/cron stop
+    /etc/init.d/cron status 2>&1 > /dev/null && /etc/init.d/cron stop
     exit 0
     ;;
   postrm)