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

[郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)]

I see, I just upgraded to 1.4.8 on 14 Feb 2012, The log must be
generated by an former version of cronie. Now it seems all gone, and I
can't provid the spamed log because I have cleaned them up 2 days ago.

Let's see, if there are spams again, I will post here.

2012/2/19 Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu>:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:26:46 +0800
> 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Since 1.4.8 cronie doesn't need /etc/crontab... Can you show relevant piece
> of /var/log/crond.log?
>
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