On 02/22/2011 11:28 PM, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: > If have some symlinks below /etc/cron.d pointing to another directory > (configuration repository).
/etc/cron.d has no recursive support, so any symlinks pointing to directories won't work. > E.g. /etc/cron.d/c42-dump-fs is such a symlink. > On restart of crond i found following in the syslog: > Feb 22 23:23:43 XXXX cron[6128]: (*system*c42-dump-fs) WRONG INODE INFO > (/etc/cron.d/c42-dump-fs) (I'm assuming c42-dump-fs is a file, not a directory, because of the syslog marker below) Admittedly, the error message is confusing. Both owner:group of /etc/cron.d/c42-dump-fs must be root:root; the error message intends to say that at least one of those is not the case. > The file has also a marker for syslog: > @daily nobody logger -p local0.notice -t CRON '$Id: c42-dump-fs.XXXX 4388 > 2011-02-15 23:41:20Z XXXX $' Because of the ownership issues above, this file would be ignored. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723423 Title: crond ignores symlinks in /etc/cron.d -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
