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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40499: mcron missing initial directories?
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:55:05 +0200
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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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=E2=80=99.