[arch-general] An empty /etc/crontab file maybe needed bo be add in to package filesystem.

[郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)]

2012/2/18 Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>:
> Am Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:25:54 +0800
> schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com>:
>
>> Due to cronie doesn't contain an /etc/crontab anymore, there are losts
>> of msgs of missing crontab as shown below in errors.log.
>>
>> > /usr/sbin/crond[1236]: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such
>> > file or directory
>
> Such an empty /etc/crontab would belong into the package cronie and not
> into the package filesystem. It's cronie specific since fcron, which I
> use, doesn't need and provide one. The corresponding, but also not
> necessary file for fcron would be /etc/fcrontab. And I'm not sure if
> such an empty /etc/crontab would affect fcron.
>
> If cronie doesn't provide an empty /etc/crontab and doesn't run
> without it, it is a bug in cronie.
>
> Heiko

It runs well,but just spam the error.log and crond.log without /etc/crontab.