From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 40499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40499: mcron missing initial directories?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:27:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2r3yccf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200409203958.GU1518@E5400> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2020 23:39:58 +0300")
Hi,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 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
That’s what I had in mind.
> or does the mere existence of the files allow cron tasks to start
> working?
Good question. Actually I think the crontab compatibility bit is rather
separate in mcron: AIUI, you have to run ‘crond’, not ‘mcron’, if you
want that to get that functionality (info "(mcron) Invoking cron or
crond").
So perhaps all this is moot unless/until we have an mcron-crond service.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-10 8:28 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
2020-04-10 8:27 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-08-24 3:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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