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

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Sat Feb 18 07:58:43 EST 2012


2012/2/18 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com>:
> 2012/2/18 Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>:
>> 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
>
> It runs well,but just spam the error.log and crond.log without /etc/crontab.

Heiko is right. File a bug against cronie.

That said, if there is a valid usecase of running cronie with an empty
contab file, I'd suggest it would be best if cronie also could deal
with no crontabfile at all. So maybe that is something one could
request from upstream.

-t


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