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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 40499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40499: mcron missing initial directories?
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:55:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ktu7152.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200408003503.64a357da@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Wed, 8 Apr 2020 00:35:03 +0200")

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.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08  9:56 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 [this message]
2020-04-09 20:39   ` Efraim Flashner
2020-04-10  8:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-24  3:48       ` Maxim Cournoyer

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