[arch-general] New cron hourly messages as of 8/1 - Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir ??

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Tue Aug 2 11:11:43 EDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Milos Negovanovic
<milos.negovanovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 09:44:54AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>>   Beginning 8/1 at 01:59, I began getting emails regarding "cron for
>> user root job sys-hourly" that contain:
>>
>> Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir
>>
>
> mkdir /etc/cron.hourly

This was caused by initscripts removing it's hwclock script from
/etc/cron.hourly, and a bug in pacman then deleting the empty dir.
AFAIK, it will be fixed in pacman 4.0.

-t


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