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

[郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)]

2012/2/19 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Leonid Isaev
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Still have the problem:

Feb 19 06:31:01 vbox02 /usr/sbin/crond[8394]: (root) CAN'T OPEN
(/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
Feb 19 06:32:01 vbox02 /usr/sbin/crond[8394]: (root) CAN'T OPEN
(/etc/crontab): No such file or directory