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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