Hi, Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi Danny, >> >> Danny Milosavljevic <[email protected]> skribis: >> >> > $ crontab -e >> > >> > In unknown file: >> > 0 (copy-file "/tmp/crontab.10313" "/var/cron/tabs/dannym") >> > >> > ERROR: In procedure copy-file: >> > In procedure copy-file: No such file or directory >> > >> > /var/cron doesn't exit either. Maybe we should automatically create >> > /var/cron ? >> >> Yes, this should be done in an activation snippet. >> > > Should this be part of a crontab service That’s what I had in mind. > or does the mere existence of the files allow cron tasks to start > working? Good question. Actually I think the crontab compatibility bit is rather separate in mcron: AIUI, you have to run ‘crond’, not ‘mcron’, if you want that to get that functionality (info "(mcron) Invoking cron or crond"). So perhaps all this is moot unless/until we have an mcron-crond service. Ludo’.
