On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson: >> The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron. > > Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: > - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs > - use run-parts rather than ad-hoc script > - use vanilla configuration files > > Downside: after upgrading from 1.4.7-4, you will need to restart crond. > (The configuration must be reloaded so that run-parts is used.) > > Please test and signoff. The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify support will be disabled at runtime. As packaged, without this file: 2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.7) 2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 <cron.err> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]: (CRON) This directory or file can't be watched (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory 2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]: (CRON) INFO (running without inotify support) After doing "touch /etc/crontab": 2011-04-27T10:14:22-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[22784]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.7) 2011-04-27T10:14:22-04:00 <cron.info> akherou /usr/sbin/crond[22784]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support) I suggest including an empty /etc/crontab in this package, as you made a conscious decision to enable inotify support in the build. Possibly it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no content, instead of a literally empty file. Other than that, this package is working fine for me, nice work.
