From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 40499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40499: mcron missing initial directories?
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 23:39:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409203958.GU1518@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ktu7152.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Danny,
>
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> 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 or does the mere existence of
the files allow cron tasks to start working?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-09 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-07 22:35 bug#40499: mcron missing initial directories? Danny Milosavljevic
2020-04-08 9:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-09 20:39 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2020-04-10 8:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-24 3:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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