I use user crontabs since years in nixos. Both with vixie and fcron. I don't remember seeing this trouble. Maybe I lag one month or so in nixos, so I'm not running master HEAD.
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:10:19AM +0200, Damien Cassou wrote: > Hi, > > how can nixos users (not the nixos system, but simple users) specify > cron jobs? If a user writes: > > $ crontab -e > > then he is presented with a file that has this warning: > > DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > > If the user modifies the file nonetheless, cron will never run the > added jobs. I tried with: > > */1 * * * * date >> /tmp/crontest.txt > > and the file crontest.txt never contains any date. > > If the user creates its own crontab file and then registers it, it won't work: > > $ crontab /tmp/my.cron > cannot chdir(/var/cron), bailing out. > /var/cron: Permission denied > > > Can you please tell me how simple users can register jobs on nixos? > > -- > Damien Cassou > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st > > "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without > losing enthusiasm." > Winston Churchill > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
