You have been subscribed to a public bug: i guess it is rather a feature than a bug but it doesnot feel right $ crontab -l got "no crontab for $user" from stderr and a return code of 1 if the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$user does not exist but if the file exists and is empty code 0 is returned by default that file does not exist so i think the error code doesn't make sense if "1" means error, the system should have that file created while creating user if "1" means not found, 1 should be returned when no jobs are found in the file
** Affects: cron (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- crontab -l return 1 in absence of /var/spool/cron/crontabs/user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762911 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cron in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp