Package: mcron Version: 1.0.8-1 Severity: important I can send my crontab if needed. I have a file /root/.cron/job.guile with my crontab in it (per the instructions for mcron). If I run mcron, it compiles my crontab (typical guile behavior), and then it tells me that it cannot read the files in my .cron directory.
Of course, it had to have read them to compile them, so maybe it's talking about the compiled output. I checked the permissions on them and made them identical to those of the text crontab, and the error persists. Regular users on the system are able to use mcron just fine, but the root account seems stuck. Notably, it does not fail if the crontab is an empty file. Here is the CLI output if I run it myself as root (the process exits with code 13): # mcron mcron: Cannot read files in your ~/.config/cron (or ~/.cron) directory. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mcron depends on: ii dpkg 1.17.25 ii guile-2.0 2.0.11+1-9 ii guile-2.0-libs 2.0.11+1-9 ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libgc1c2 1:7.2d-6.4 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.3-1 mcron recommends no packages. mcron suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
