[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4

[Ray Kohler]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at 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.

As packaged, without this file:

2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]:
(CRON) STARTUP (1.4.7)
2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 <cron.err> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]:
(CRON) This directory or file can't be watched (/etc/crontab): No such
file or directory
2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]:
(CRON) INFO (running without inotify support)

After doing "touch /etc/crontab":

2011-04-27T10:14:22-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[22784]:
(CRON) STARTUP (1.4.7)
2011-04-27T10:14:22-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[22784]:
(CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)

I suggest including an empty /etc/crontab in this package, as you made
a conscious decision to enable inotify support in the build. Possibly
it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no content,
instead of a literally empty file.

Other than that, this package is working fine for me, nice work.