Am 27.04.2011 16:19, schrieb Ray Kohler:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson:
The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron.
Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs - use run-parts rather than ad-hoc script - use vanilla configuration files
Downside: after upgrading from 1.4.7-4, you will need to restart crond. (The configuration must be reloaded so that run-parts is used.)
Please test and signoff.
The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify support will be disabled at runtime.
I would consider this an upstream bug that should be reported. inotify is perfectly capable of handling this situation (as it is done in 'tail -F' for example).